make sure we redirect to signin page if we ever get a 401 response.

frontend/src/app/app.module.ts

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
 import { AuthInterceptorService } from './services/auth-interceptor.service';
 import { CanActivateAuthGuard } from './services/can-activate.auth-guard';
 import {FastenApiService} from './services/fasten-api.service';
+import {Router} from '@angular/router';
 @NgModule({
   declarations: [
     AppComponent,
@@ -44,11 +45,11 @@ import {FastenApiService} from './services/fasten-api.service';
     ChartsModule
   ],
   providers: [
-    FastenApiService,
     {
       provide: HTTP_INTERCEPTORS,
       useClass: AuthInterceptorService,
-      multi: true
+      multi: true,
+      deps: [FastenApiService, Router]
     },
     CanActivateAuthGuard
   ],

frontend/src/app/services/auth-interceptor.service.ts

@@ -1,23 +1,36 @@
 import { Injectable, Injector } from '@angular/core';
-import { HttpInterceptor } from '@angular/common/http';
+import {HttpErrorResponse, HttpEvent, HttpHandler, HttpInterceptor, HttpRequest} from '@angular/common/http';
 import { FastenApiService } from './fasten-api.service';
+import {Router} from '@angular/router';
+import {Observable, of, throwError} from 'rxjs';
+import {catchError} from 'rxjs/operators';
 
 @Injectable({
   providedIn: 'root'
 })
-export class AuthInterceptorService {
 
-  constructor(private injector: Injector) { }
+// based on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46017245/how-to-handle-unauthorized-requestsstatus-with-401-or-403-with-new-httpclient
+export class AuthInterceptorService implements HttpInterceptor {
 
-  intercept(req, next) {
+  constructor(private fastenApiService: FastenApiService, private router: Router) { }
-    const fastenApiService = this.injector.get(FastenApiService);
-    const fastenApiRequest = req.clone({
-      // tslint:disable-next-line:max-line-length
-      headers: req.headers.set('Authorization', 'Bearer ' + fastenApiService.token)
-    });
 
-    return next.handle(fastenApiRequest);
+  private handleAuthError(err: HttpErrorResponse): Observable<any> {
+    //handle your auth error or rethrow
+    if (err.status === 401 || err.status === 403) {
+      //navigate /delete cookies or whatever
+      this.fastenApiService.logout()
+      this.router.navigateByUrl(`/auth/signin`);
+      // if you've caught / handled the error, you don't want to rethrow it unless you also want downstream consumers to have to handle it as well.
+      return of(err.message); // or EMPTY may be appropriate here
+    }
+    return throwError(err);
+  }
+
+  intercept(req: HttpRequest<any>, next: HttpHandler): Observable<HttpEvent<any>> {
+    // Clone the request to add the new header.
+    const authReq = req.clone({headers: req.headers.set('Authorization', 'Bearer ' + this.fastenApiService.token())});
+    // catch the error, make specific functions for catching specific errors and you can chain through them with more catch operators
+    return next.handle(authReq).pipe(catchError(x=> this.handleAuthError(x))); //here use an arrow function, otherwise you may get "Cannot read property 'navigate' of undefined" on angular 4.4.2/net core 2/webpack 2.70
 
-    //TODO: check if the response is 401, if so we should always redirect to /login
   }
 }

frontend/src/app/services/fasten-api.service.ts

@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ export class FastenApiService {
 
   logout() {
     localStorage.removeItem(this.AUTH_TOKEN_KEY);
-    this.router.navigateByUrl('/');
   }
 
   signup(newUser: User): Observable<any> {