simple-react-auth

A set of react components for authorization

License

This project is licensed under AGPL-3.0-or-later. See the LICENSE file for more informations.

Usage

For a detailed example, see the example folder.

AuthProvider

To use this library, you first need to wrap your app with an custom auth provider:

import { AuthProvider } from '@bithero/simple-react-auth';

const MyAuthProvider = ({ children }) => {
    return (
        <AuthProvider client={...} onRedirect={...}>
            {children}
        </AuthProvider>
    );
};

// As you see, with this lib you even can wrap the browserrouter with the auth provider!
root.render(
    <MyAuthProvider>
        <BrowserRouter>
            <App/>
        </BrowserRouter>
    </MyAuthProvider>
);

Next, you have to implement & supply a instance of IAuthClient<TUser>. This is a type that will be called to do the actual login/logout actions, check the user's session (i.e. localstorage and similar technologies) and get the user data. The generic argument (TUser) is used to specify the type the userdata a client produces has.

Here's an example:

import { IAuthClient } from '@bithero/simple-react-auth';
type MockUser = { name: string; };
class MockClient implements IAuthClient<MockUser> {
    private user: MockUser | null = null;
    async login(params: any): Promise<void> {
        // Handles the login.
        // The parameters are the one provided by your application.
        // This method should fill in the user field above
        // and throw if any issue arieses.
    }
    async logout(): Promise<void> {
        // Handles the logout.
        // You should cleanup all cached data from a login here.
    }
    async checkSession(): Promise<void> {
        // Called on app startup to determine if already logged in.
        // In other words: it checks a users "session". Effectivly
        // the client should after this be the same state as after
        // a call to '.login()'.
    }
    async getUser(): Promise<MockUser | null> {
        // Simple accessor to the user object.
        // Can be as complex or simple as you need it.
        return this.user;
    }
}

Next we also need to supply a redirect callback which is called when the library needs to take the user to the login page.

It can either be a normal lambda such as

const onRedirect = () => {
    window.location = "/login";
};

but to use things as navigate() from react-router, you need to use a bit more complicated syntax:

import { useNavigate } from 'react-router-dom';
import { createHookAware } from '@bithero/react-helpers';
const onRedirect = createHookAware(
    // This is a object which maps a name to the hook it should call;
    // Here it makes 'navigate' an alias to the result of `useNavigate`.
    { 'navigate': useNavigate, },

    // This NEEDS to be a function; a arrow function will NOT work!
    // It gets `this` set to a object where all keys / members are
    // the names declared in the object above, with the result of the
    // specified hooks as value.
    function() {
        // 2 second timeout before redirecting to the login.
        setTimeout(() => {
            this.navigate('/login');
        }, 2000);
    }
);

For more informations, see the @bithero/react-helpers package.

useAuth

With this, you can finish configuring <AuthProvider>. Now in it's children you can use useAuth to get the auth object:

import { useAuth } from '@bithero/simple-react-auth';
function HomePage() {
    const auth = useAuth();
    // Auth gives access to all functions of the library:
    //  auth.login(...) starts a login
    //  auth.logout() starts a logout
    //  auth.refreshUser() refreshes the user object
    //      (by calling client.getUser one time) and notifying
    //      all consumers.
    //  auth.error contains the last error
    //  auth.isAuthenticated is a flag that, when true,
    //      expresses that a user is authenticated.
    //  auth.user is the user object as returned by client.getUser
};

withAuth

A simple higher order component, which wraps the provided component in a consumer for the auth context, and additionally providing the current auth to it as parameter (same return type as if you'd use useAuth).

import { withAuth } from '@bithero/simple-react-auth';
const HomePage = withAuth(({ auth }) => {
    const { user } = auth;
    return <pre>{JSON.stringify(user)}</pre>;
});

withAuthRequired

A higher order component, which requires a authenticated user to render the provided component. If there is no authenticated user, it will call the optionally supplied IAuthRequiredOpts.onRedirect to render a alternative text and runs the onRedirect hook provided to the <AuthProvider> to redirect the user to the login page.

import { withAuthRequired } from '@bithero/simple-react-auth';

const authRequiredOpts: IAuthRequiredOpts = {
    onRedirect() {
        return <div>Youre being redirected to the login now.</div>;
    }
};

const Protected = withAuthRequired(() => {
    return <>...</>;
}, authRequiredOpts);

function AppRoutes() {
    return <Routes>
        <Route path="/plugin"/>
        <Route path="/protected" element={<Protected/>}/>
    </Routes>;
}