Headers

The headers option may be used with any of our HTTP links: httpBatchLink, httpBatchStreamLink, httpLink, or httpSubscriptionLink.

headers can be both an object or a function. If it's a function it will get called dynamically for every HTTP request.

utils/trpc.ts
ts
import { createTRPCClient, httpBatchLink } from '@trpc/client';
import type { AppRouter } from './server';
 
let token: string;
 
export function setToken(newToken: string) {
  /**
   * You can also save the token to cookies, and initialize from
   * cookies above.
   */
  token = newToken;
}
 
export const trpc = createTRPCClient<AppRouter>({
  links: [
    httpBatchLink({
      url: 'http://localhost:3000',
      /**
       * Headers will be called on each request.
       */
      headers() {
        return {
          Authorization: token,
        };
      },
    }),
  ],
});

utils/trpc.ts
ts
import { createTRPCClient, httpBatchLink } from '@trpc/client';
import type { AppRouter } from './server';
 
let token: string;
 
export function setToken(newToken: string) {
  /**
   * You can also save the token to cookies, and initialize from
   * cookies above.
   */
  token = newToken;
}
 
export const trpc = createTRPCClient<AppRouter>({
  links: [
    httpBatchLink({
      url: 'http://localhost:3000',
      /**
       * Headers will be called on each request.
       */
      headers() {
        return {
          Authorization: token,
        };
      },
    }),
  ],
});

Example with auth login

auth.ts
ts
const result = await trpc.auth.login.mutate({ username: 'user', password: 'pass' });
setToken(result.accessToken);

auth.ts
ts
const result = await trpc.auth.login.mutate({ username: 'user', password: 'pass' });
setToken(result.accessToken);

The token can be whatever you want it to be. It's entirely up to you whether that's just a client-side variable that you update the value of on success or whether you store the token and pull it from local storage.