Currently, users get logged out and must log back into Codecov each time their 8 hour GitHub token expires. The GitHub token should come with a refresh token that we can use to refresh the user's token for another 8 hours. Doing this automatically in the background at some interval or trigger should help reduce the frequency at which users are logged out of Codecov unexpectedly.

Explore our use of the GitHub token and determine whether it's possible to do this token refreshing automatically in the background.

A band-aid fix was attempted in #1915, but we decided to pause this until this exploration revealed any major changes with session management.

GitHub docs on refreshing tokens
GitHub docs on token expiry

Automatic session logout context:
#642
codecov/gazebo#2411