@gcou/react-native-linkedin

🔗 React-Native LinkedIn

Simple LinkedIn login library for React-Native with WebView into a Modal

Benefits

• Light: No need to link a native library like others alternatives
• Simple: Get the token and the expires, you handle your own login with the access_token
• Sure: open-source
• Almost readable & understandable code: JavaScript & React

Installation

$ yarn add @gcou/react-native-linkedin

If your project uses expo >= 48, then you need to add expo-crypto to your project. The uuid library uses the Expo module if present. If Expo >= 48, then the crypto elements are in the expo-crypto module

$ yarn add expo-crypto

Security

Please note that you should give your linkedin client id but not your secret key to this component. You should be aware that key can be found if you store it directly to your code. I strongly recommend to not declare client secret key on your code but found a way to keep it secret

• > Related issue
• > LinkedIn Documentation

  <LinkedInModal
    shouldGetAccessToken={false}
    clientSecret={null}
    clientID="[ Your client id from https://www.linkedin.com/developer/apps ]"
    redirectUri="[ Your redirect uri set into https://www.linkedin.com/developer/apps ]"
    onSuccess={{ authentication_code } => console.log(`Post this ${authentication_code} to your server.`)}
  />

Example

// See ./App.tsx file for details
import React, {ReactElement, useRef} from 'react';
import {StyleSheet, View} from 'react-native';

import LinkedInModal from 'react-native-linkedin';

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    backgroundColor: '#fff',
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
  },
})

export default function AppContainer() : ReactElement {
  linkedRef = useRef<any>();
  
  return (
    <View style={styles.container}>
      <LinkedInModal
        ref={this.linkedRef}
        clientID="[ Your client id from https://www.linkedin.com/developer/apps ]"
        clientSecret="[ Your client secret from https://www.linkedin.com/developer/apps ]"
        redirectUri="[ Your redirect uri set into https://www.linkedin.com/developer/apps ]"
        onSuccess={token => console.log(token)}
      />
      <Button title="Log Out" onPress={this.linkedRef.current.logoutAsync()} />
    </View>
  )
}

Props

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
clientID	string	required		Your client id
clientSecret	string	use shouldGetAccessToken={false} and read authorization_code onSuccess return		Should not be stored in app WARNING! Your client secret
redirectUri	string	required		Your redirectUri
onSuccess	function	required		Function will be call back on success
authState	string	optional	require('uuid').v4()	The state of auth, to be more secure
onError	function	optional	console.error(err)	Function will be call back on error
onClose	function	optional		Function will be call back on close modal
onOpen	function	optional		Function will be call back on open modal
onSignIn	function	optional		Function will be call back when the user sign in
permissions	string[]	optional	'r_liteprofile', 'r_emailaddress'	The LinkedIn access token permissions
renderButton	ReactElement	optional		Render for customize LinkedIn button
renderClose	ReactElement	optional		Render for customize close button
linkText	string	optional	'Login with LinkedIn'	Link label
containerStyle	StyleProp	optional		Customize container style
wrapperStyle	StyleProp	optional		Customize wrapper style
closeStyle	StyleProp	optional		Customize close style
animationType	Modal.propTypes.animationType	optional	fade	Customize animationType style: 'none', 'slide' or 'fade'
shouldGetAccessToken	bool	optional	true	Set to false to receive the 'authorization code' rather then the 'access token'
areaTouchText	object	optional	{top: 20, bottom: 20, left: 50, right: 50}	Set values for to increase the text touch area

Contribution

• @xcarpentier The main author.

PRs are welcome!

FAQ

Is it supported and tested both on android and iOS?

YES

How to logout react-native-linkedin?

<View style={styles.container}>
    <LinkedInModal
      ref={this.linkedRef}
      clientID="[ Your client id from https://www.linkedin.com/developer/apps ]"
      clientSecret="[ Your client secret from https://www.linkedin.com/developer/apps ]"
      redirectUri="[ Your redirect uri set into https://www.linkedin.com/developer/apps ]"
      onSuccess={token => console.log(token)}
    />
    <Button title="Log Out" onPress={this.linkedRef.current.logoutAsync()} />
</View>

Other questions

Feel free to contact me or create an issue

Alternatives

• react-native-linkedin-login
• react-native-linkedin-sdk
• react-native-linkedin-oauth

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Licence

MIT

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