π A custom React hook that makes OAuth2 authorization simple. Both for Implicit Grant and Authorization Code flows.
- Usage with both
Implicit
andAuthorization Code
grant flows. - Seamlessly exchanges code for token via your backend API URL, for authorization code grant flows.
- Works with Popup authorization.
- Provides data and loading/error states via a hook.
- Persists data to localStorage and automatically syncs auth state between tabs and/or browser windows.
Requires [email protected]
or higher that includes hooks.
yarn add @tasoskakour/react-use-oauth2
or
npm i @tasoskakour/react-use-oauth2
For authorization code flow:
import { OAuth2Popup, useOAuth2 } from "@tasoskakour/react-use-oauth2";
import { BrowserRouter, Routes, Route } from "react-router-dom";
const Home = () => {
const { data, loading, error, getAuth } = useOAuth2({
authorizeUrl: "https://example.com/auth",
clientId: "YOUR_CLIENT_ID",
redirectUri: `${document.location.origin}/callback`,
scope: "YOUR_SCOPES",
responseType: "code",
exchangeCodeForTokenServerURL: "https://your-backend/token",
exchangeCodeForTokenMethod: "POST",
onSuccess: (payload) => console.log("Success", payload),
onError: (error_) => console.log("Error", error_)
});
const isLoggedIn = Boolean(data?.access_token); // or whatever...
if (error) {
return <div>Error</div>;
}
if (loading) {
return <div>Loading...</div>;
}
if (isLoggedIn) {
return <pre>{JSON.stringify(data)}</pre>;
}
return (
<button style={{ margin: "24px" }} type="button" onClick={() => getAuth()}>
Login
</button>
);
};
const App = () => {
return (
<BrowserRouter>
<Routes>
<Route element={<OAuthPopup />} path="/callback" />
<Route element={<Home />} path="/" />
</Routes>
</BrowserRouter>
);
};
Generally when we're working with authorization code flows, we need to immediately exchange the retrieved code with an actual access token, after a successful authorization. Most of the times this is needed for back-end apps, but there are many use cases this is useful for front-end apps as well.
In order for the flow to be accomplished, the 3rd party provider we're authorizing against (e.g Google, Facebook etc), will provide an API call (e.g for Google is https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token
) that we need to hit in order to exchange the code for an access token. However, this call requires the client_secret
of your 3rd party app as a parameter to work - a secret that you cannot expose to your front-end app.
That's why you need to proxy this call to your back-end and exchangeCodeForTokenServerURL
is the API URL of your back-end route that will take care of this. The request parameters that will get passed along as query parameters are { code, client_id, grant_type, redirect_uri, state }
. By default this will be a POST request but you can change it with the exchangeCodeForTokenMethod
property.
You can read more about "Exchanging authorization code for refresh and access tokens" in Google OAuth2 documentation.
With an implicit grant flow things are much simpler as the 3rd-party provider immediately returns the access_token
to the callback request so there's no need to make any action after that. Just set responseType=token
to use this flow.
After a successful authorization, data will get persisted to localStorage and the state will automatically sync to all tabs/pages of the browser. The storage key the data will be written to will be: {responseType}-{authorizeUrl}-{clientId}-{scope}
.
If you want to re-trigger the authorization flow just call getAuth()
function again.
function useOAuth2(options): {data, loading, error, getAuth}
This is the hook that makes this package to work. Options
is an object that contains the properties below
- authorizeUrl (string): The 3rd party authorization URL (e.g https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/v2/auth).
- clientId (string): The OAuth2 client id of your application.
- redirectUri (string): Determines where the 3rd party API server redirects the user after the user completes the authorization flow. In our example the Popup is rendered on that redirectUri.
- scope (string - optional): A list of scopes depending on your application needs.
- responseType (string): Can be either code for code authorization grant or token for implicit grant.
- extraQueryParameters (string - optional): An object of extra parameters that you'd like to pass to the query part of the authorizeUrl, e.g {audience: "xyz"}.
- exchangeCodeForTokenServerURL (string): This property is only used when using code authorization grant flow (responseType = code). It specifies the API URL of your server that will get called immediately after the user completes the authorization flow. Read more here.
- exchangeCodeForTokenMethod (string - optional): Specifies the HTTP method that will be used for the code-for-token exchange to your server. Defaults to POST.
- onSuccess (function): Called after a complete successful authorization flow.
- onError (function): Called when an error occurs.
Returns:
- data (object): Consists of the retrieved auth data and generally will have the shape of
{access_token, token_type, expires_in}
(check Typescript usage for providing custom shape). - loading (boolean): Is set to true while the authorization is taking place.
- error (string): Is set when an error occurs.
- getAuth (function): Call this function to trigger the authorization flow.
function OAuthPopup(props)
This is the component that will be rendered as a window Popup for as long as the authorization is taking place. You need to render this in a place where it does not disrupt the user flow. An ideal place is inside a Route
component of react-router-dom
as seen in the usage example.
Props consists of:
- Component (ReactElement - optional): You can optionally set a custom component to be rendered inside the Popup. By default it just displays a "Loading..." message.
The useOAuth2
function identity is:
const useOAuth2: <TData = AuthTokenPayload>(props: Oauth2Props<TData>) => {
data: State<AuthTokenPayload>;
loading: boolean;
error: null;
getAuth: () => () => void;
}
That means that generally the data will have the shape of AuthTokenPayload
which consists of:
token_type: string;
expires_in: number;
access_token: string;
scope: string;
refresh_token: string;
And that also means that you can set the data type by using the hook like this:
type MyCustomShapeData = {
...
}
const {data, ...} = useOAuth2<MyCustomShapeData>({...});
You can run tests by calling
npm test
It will start a react-app (:3000) and back-end server (:3001) and then it will run the tests with jest & puppeteer.