Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Angular 6 and Laravel 5

Creating the getUser function

Now, we will see how to get the information of the logged-in user. Remember that our API has an endpoint that gives us the information of the logged-in user based on the authentication token.

Let's see how we can do this in a simple way.

Add the following code right after the getToken() function:

getUser():  Observable<User> {
        return  this.http.get(this.apiUrl  +  '/me').pipe(
                tap(
                        (user: User) => {
                                this.currentUser  =  user;
                        }
                )
        );
}

The previous code receives the user's information from the API and applies this to the currentUser property.