@auth0/auth0-react

What is @auth0/auth0-react?

@auth0/auth0-react is a library that provides React hooks and components to integrate Auth0 authentication and authorization into React applications. It simplifies the process of adding authentication, handling user sessions, and securing routes.

What are @auth0/auth0-react's main functionalities?

Authentication

This feature allows you to integrate Auth0 authentication into your React application. The Auth0Provider component wraps your application and provides authentication context. The useAuth0 hook is used to access authentication methods like loginWithRedirect and logout.

import { Auth0Provider, useAuth0 } from '@auth0/auth0-react';

const App = () => (
  <Auth0Provider
    domain="YOUR_DOMAIN"
    clientId="YOUR_CLIENT_ID"
    redirectUri={window.location.origin}
  >
    <YourComponent />
  </Auth0Provider>
);

const YourComponent = () => {
  const { loginWithRedirect, logout, isAuthenticated } = useAuth0();

  return (
    <div>
      {!isAuthenticated && (
        <button onClick={() => loginWithRedirect()}>Log in</button>
      )}
      {isAuthenticated && (
        <button onClick={() => logout({ returnTo: window.location.origin })}>Log out</button>
      )}
    </div>
  );
};

User Profile

This feature allows you to access and display the authenticated user's profile information. The useAuth0 hook provides the user object, which contains details like name, email, and profile picture.

import { useAuth0 } from '@auth0/auth0-react';

const UserProfile = () => {
  const { user, isAuthenticated } = useAuth0();

  if (!isAuthenticated) {
    return <div>Please log in to see your profile.</div>;
  }

  return (
    <div>
      <img src={user.picture} alt={user.name} />
      <h2>{user.name}</h2>
      <p>{user.email}</p>
    </div>
  );
};

Securing Routes

This feature allows you to secure specific routes in your React application. The withAuthenticationRequired higher-order component ensures that only authenticated users can access the protected routes. If a user is not authenticated, they will be redirected to the login page.

import { useAuth0, withAuthenticationRequired } from '@auth0/auth0-react';
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route, Switch } from 'react-router-dom';

const ProtectedRoute = ({ component, ...args }) => (
  <Route
    component={withAuthenticationRequired(component, {
      onRedirecting: () => <div>Loading...</div>,
    })}
    {...args}
  />
);

const App = () => (
  <Router>
    <Switch>
      <Route path="/public" component={PublicComponent} />
      <ProtectedRoute path="/protected" component={ProtectedComponent} />
    </Switch>
  </Router>
);

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README

📚 Documentation - 🚀 Getting Started - 💻 API Reference - 💬 Feedback

Documentation

• Quickstart - our interactive guide for quickly adding login, logout and user information to a React app using Auth0.
• Sample App - a full-fledged React application integrated with Auth0.
• FAQs - frequently asked questions about the auth0-react SDK.
• Examples - code samples for common React authentication scenario's.
• Docs site - explore our docs site and learn more about Auth0.

Getting started

Installation

Using npm

npm install @auth0/auth0-react

Using yarn

yarn add @auth0/auth0-react

Configure Auth0

Create a Single Page Application in the Auth0 Dashboard.

If you're using an existing application, verify that you have configured the following settings in your Single Page Application:

• Click on the "Settings" tab of your application's page.
• Ensure that "Token Endpoint Authentication Method" under "Application Properties" is set to "None"
• Scroll down and click on the "Show Advanced Settings" link.
• Under "Advanced Settings", click on the "OAuth" tab.
• Ensure that "JsonWebToken Signature Algorithm" is set to RS256 and that "OIDC Conformant" is enabled.

Next, configure the following URLs for your application under the "Application URIs" section of the "Settings" page:

• Allowed Callback URLs: http://localhost:3000
• Allowed Logout URLs: http://localhost:3000
• Allowed Web Origins: http://localhost:3000

These URLs should reflect the origins that your application is running on. Allowed Callback URLs may also include a path, depending on where you're handling the callback.

Take note of the Client ID and Domain values under the "Basic Information" section. You'll need these values in the next step.

Configure the SDK

Configure the SDK by wrapping your application in Auth0Provider:

// src/index.js
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { Auth0Provider } from '@auth0/auth0-react';
import App from './App';

ReactDOM.render(
  <Auth0Provider
    domain="YOUR_AUTH0_DOMAIN"
    clientId="YOUR_AUTH0_CLIENT_ID"
    authorizationParams={{
      redirect_uri: window.location.origin,
    }}
  >
    <App />
  </Auth0Provider>,
  document.getElementById('app')
);

Use the useAuth0 hook in your components to access authentication state (isLoading, isAuthenticated and user) and authentication methods (loginWithRedirect and logout):

// src/App.js
import React from 'react';
import { useAuth0 } from '@auth0/auth0-react';

function App() {
  const { isLoading, isAuthenticated, error, user, loginWithRedirect, logout } =
    useAuth0();

  if (isLoading) {
    return <div>Loading...</div>;
  }
  if (error) {
    return <div>Oops... {error.message}</div>;
  }

  if (isAuthenticated) {
    return (
      <div>
        Hello {user.name}{' '}
        <button onClick={() => logout({ returnTo: window.location.origin })}>
          Log out
        </button>
      </div>
    );
  } else {
    return <button onClick={loginWithRedirect}>Log in</button>;
  }
}

export default App;

For more code samples on how to integrate auth0-react SDK in your React application, have a look at our examples.

API reference

Explore public API's available in auth0-react.

• Auth0Provider
• Auth0ProviderOptions
• useAuth0
• withAuth0
• withAuthenticationRequired

Feedback

Contributing

We appreciate feedback and contribution to this repo! Before you get started, please see the following:

• Auth0's general contribution guidelines
• Auth0's code of conduct guidelines
• This repo's contribution guide

Raise an issue

To provide feedback or report a bug, please raise an issue on our issue tracker.

Vulnerability Reporting

Please do not report security vulnerabilities on the public GitHub issue tracker. The Responsible Disclosure Program details the procedure for disclosing security issues.

Auth0 is an easy to implement, adaptable authentication and authorization platform. To learn more checkout Why Auth0?

This project is licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.

Changelog

v2.0.0 (2023-01-19)

Auth0-React v2 includes many significant changes compared to v1:

• Removal of polyfills from bundles
• Introduction of authorizationParams and logoutParams for properties sent to Auth0
• Removal of buildAuthorizeUrl and buildLogoutUrl
• Removal of redirectMethod on loginWithRedirect in favour of openUrl
• Removal of localOnly from logout in favour of openUrl
• Renaming of ignoreCache to cacheMode and introduction of cache-only
• Use application/x-www-form-urlencoded by default
• Do not fallback to refreshing tokens via iframe by default
• Changes to default scopes and removal of advancedOptions.defaultScope
• Removal of claimCheck on withAuthenticationRequired

As with any major version bump, v2 of Auth0-React contains a set of breaking changes. Please review the migration guide thoroughly to understand the changes required to migrate your application to v2.