GraphQL Cookbook
Authenticating a user
2 min
authenticating a logged user through the parse graphql api problem you want to authenticate a logged user in your backend through the parse graphql api solution using the parse graphql api, you can authenticate a logged user just by sending the user’s sessiontoken sessiontoken (that you may have acquired by signing up https //www back4app com/docs/parse graphql/graphql sign up or logging in https //www back4app com/docs/parse graphql/graphql login this user) through the x parse session token x parse session token header this header can be sent in any operation and it will make this operation to be run in the behavior of the authenticated user the x parse session token x parse session token can be easily set in the parse dashboard graphql playground through the http headers http headers option in the bottom left side of this tool