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AI-KIT: Authentication

This is the frontend library for the AI-KIT module Authentication. Use it in conjunction with the django package django-ai-kit-auth in order to get a functioning authentication running in your app in no time.

Installation

You can easily install AI-KIT: Authentication via npmjs. Using npm, run

npm install ai-kit-auth

Using yarn, run

yarn add ai-kit-auth

Quickstart

ai-kit-auth has a number of peer dependencies that you need to install yourself before you get started:

  • react@^18.2.0
  • react-router-dom@^6.0.0 Necessary only if you want to use the react router config
  • next@^10.0.0 Necessary only if you want to use the next js config
  • @material-ui/core@^4.9.0 Necessary only if you want to use the UI-components
  • @material-ui/icons@^4.9.0 Necessary only if you want to use the UI-components

While it is possible to customize many aspects of appearance and behaviour, the fastest way to get a functioning authentication module is to use a default configuration provided by this library. If you use react-router, you can create a configuration file like this:

// configureAuth.ts
import { configureAuthReactRouter } from 'ai-kit-auth';

export const { UserStore, useUserStore, makeAuthRoutes, ProtectedRoute } =
  configureAuthReactRouter({
    api: {
      url: 'http://localhost:8000/api/v1/',
      authPath: 'auth/',
    },
  });

Then you can set up your App.tsx (or App.jsx) like this:

import React from 'react';
import { BrowserRouter, Switch } from 'react-router-dom';
import { CssBaseline, ThemeProvider } from '@material-ui/core';
import { DefaultTheme } from 'ai-kit-common';
import { UserStore, makeAuthRoutes, ProtectedRoute } from './configureAuth';

import MainPage from './components/MainPage';

const App: React.FC = () => (
  <>
    <CssBaseline />
    <ThemeProvider theme={DefaultTheme}>
      <UserStore>
        <BrowserRouter>
          <Routes>
            {
              // Create routes for login, registration, password reset etc.
              makeAuthRoutes()
            }
            <ProtectedRoute path="/" component={MainPage} />
          </Routes>
        </BrowserRouter>
      </UserStore>
    </ThemeProvider>
  </>
);

export default App;

Let's break this down: the most important component is UserStore, which stores user data and provides login/logout etc. functions. makeAuthRoutes returns a list of important routes which enable basic authentication functionality. ProtectedRoute provides a quick way to force users to log in if they want to access specific pages. See the API reference for more information.

CSRF Protection

In order to guard against CSRF attacks, the UserStore obtains and provides a csrf-token for you to use. You can obtain it from the useUserStore hook and add it to each 'unsafe' request (anything that is not OPTIONS, GET, HEAD or TRACE) as X-CSRFToken-header.

If you use axios, you can use the axiosRequestConfig provided by useUserStore, which already contains the CSRF token in the correct header.

Styling and Material Theme

The components were designed with the AI KIT DefaultTheme theme in mind. To use it, add ai-kit-common to your project, wrap your application in <ThemeProvider> tags and add the required fonts to your application. You are also advised to add a <CssBaseline /> component to your application's root to 'normalize' the browser styles. Of course, you are also free to use whatever custom Material Theme you wish.

API Reference

AI-KIT: Authentication provides the following components and functions:

makeComponents

This is the general function to create customized components for authentication pages as well as the UserStore. However, it does not have a default configuration for routing (or jumping between pages). These defaults are implemented in the respective configuration functions for different routing libraries. If you use react-router, use the configureAuthReactRouter function instead. In case you use next, configureAuthNext is the way to go.

Parameters

  • Type parameter UserType: tells typescript, what kind of user object you expect from the backend. If you want to load more data than just the username and email of a user, you need to configure your django backend to use a custom UserSerializer. Then you need to describe the data structure in a custom User interface, which you pass to this function.
  • config: InputConfig: a configuration object with information about route paths, components etc. Besides a deep Partial of defaultConfig's type, this type also has mandatory fields regarding the routing and backend api:
  routing: {
    link: React.ComponentType<LinkProps>; // Component to display whenever a hyperlink is needed
    useRouteHandler: () => RouteHandler; // A React hook which gives an object containing
                                         // push and replace functions for the browser's history
    useQueryParams: () => Record<string, string>; // A React hook which gives an object containing the urls'
                                                  // query parameters on a key=value basis.
  };
  api: {
    url: string; // tells the store, where to send login requests.
                 // This should be the url to the django backend
                 // of your project including `api/v1/` or similar.
    authPath: string; // The path at which the auth routes are available in the backend.
                      // If you included the ai-kit-auth paths as
                      // `path(r"api/v1/auth/", "ai_kit_auth.urls"),` in your django app,
                      // you must set `apiAuthPath` to `auth/`./
  };
}

If you are absolutely certain that you need to use this function, please take a look at the source code for more information.

Returns

An object containing custom versions of all this modules' common components.

Note

⚠️ Do not mix Components configured in different configuration calls, as they will not necessarily share a UserContext!

defaultConfig

This object contains default values for AI-KIT: Auth configuration.

export const defaultConfig = {
  paths: {
    mainPage: '/', // login redirects here by default
    base: '/auth', // this path will be prepended to all other paths
    login: '/login',
    register: '/register',
    activation: '/activation', // email activation path
    forgotPassword: '/forgot-password', // clicking 'forgot password' on the login
    // page leads here
    resetPassword: '/reset-password', // actual page to reset the password.
    // Only accessible via link, which is sent by email.
    emailSent: '/email-sent', // success feedback after email was sent from the
    // forgot password page
  },
  defaultTranslator: en, // A 'Translator' function, responsible for mapping keys
  // to user facing strings.
  userIdentifier: Identifier.UsernameOrEmail, // what should the user type in the
  // login screen?
  disableUserRegistration: false, // setting this to true will remove the register
  // path completely
  components: {
    backgroundImage: DefaultBackgroundImage,
    loadingIndicator: CircularProgress,
    // is shown while user info is retrieved from server
  },
};

See Translator.

The backgroundImage is used in all the views that are wrapped in AuthView.

The CircularProgress component is imported from Material-UI.

Translator

Ai-Kit-Auth components use a translator function for displaying user-facing strings. Therefore, the config accepts translator: Translator as parameter. This type is defined as (key: string) => string and will receive strings of the form auth:Path.To.Key, conforming with i18next.

If you don't need dynamic translation and are just interested in a different supported language than the default (English), you can pass one of the predefined translator functions exported by ai-kit-auth. Currently available choices are en and de. If you need to translate only a few strings differently, we would advise you to inspect the source code in order to find the correct keys and write a wrapper function around one of the predefined translators in order to intercept the translation of those keys.

Example

import { configureAuth, en } from 'ai-kit-auth';

const customKey = 'auth:Common.ok';
const customValue = `Okay, Okay!`;
const t = (key: string) => {
  if (key === customKey) return customValue;

  return en(key);
};

export const { UserStore, ProtectedRoute, makeAuthRoutes } = configureAuth({
  translator: t,
});

If you would like to use dynamic translations, we suggest to use i18next and to pass your translator function t to makeAuthRoutes if you use react-router or the AuthPage component if you use next. That way, auth components are re-rendered whenever the language changes. In that case, you need to provide all the translations yourself in the namespace auth. To get started, you can copy the .json files containing our translations from the dist/internationalization folder of this module.

Example

import { useTranslation } from 'react-i18next';
import { UserStore, makeAuthRoutes } from './configureAuth';
...

const App: FC = () => {
  const { t } = useTranslation(['auth']);

  return (
    <UserStore>
      <Switch>
        {makeAuthRoutes(t)}
      </Switch>
    </UserStore>
  );
};

Identifier

Using this enum you can control with which information the user can login. Its values are:

  • Identifier.Username: login only with username
  • Identifier.Email: login only with email address and remove username field from register form
  • Identifier.UsernameOrEmail: login with either username or email address (default)

makeGenericUserStore

This function creates a UserStore component function, as well as UserContext for accessing user data in class-based components, MockUserStore for testing purposes, and useUserStore, a hook for accessing user data in functional components. Use this function if you only want to use the login, register, etc. functions without the material-ui components.

Parameters

  • Type parameter UserType: tells typescript, what kind of user object you expect from the backend. If you want to load more data than just the username and email of a user, you need to configure your django backend to use a custom UserSerializer. Then you need to describe the data structure in
  • api: { url: string; authPath: string }: a config object with information about how to reach the backend. For more detailed information see makeComponents.

Note

⚠️ Do not mix Components configured in different configuration calls, as they will not necessarily share a UserContext!

UserStore

This component provides user data and authentication helper functions to its children via react context. For AI-KIT: Authentication to work correctly, it is necessary to place it high in your component tree, so that it contains any components which might try to access user information, or perform user actions like login, logout etc.

Props

  • initialUser?: User: An object of the User type provided as type parameter to the configuration function. If no such object is provided, the UserStore will try to load user information from the backend. This prop could be used if you want to do server side rendering and obtained the user info in an async getServerSideProps call.
  • initialCsrf?: string: If you provide an initialUser object, you should also provide the initial csrf token which you obtained when you obtained the user object. Otherwise it might happen that unsafe calls without csrf token are blocked by the backend.

Example

// App.tsx
import React from 'react';
import { UserStore } from './configuredAuth';
import ...

const App: React.FC = () => (
  <UserStore>
    <BrowserRouter>
      ...
    </BrowserRouter>
  </UserStore>
);

export default App;

MockUserStore

This component provides a mocked UserStore for testing purposes. It provides the same context that UserStore does, however, all functions provided here return promises that never resolve.

AuthFunctionContext

This is a react Context and can be used as such. Its Consumer will receive the following fields:

  • apiUrl: string: contains the url of the backend provided in the configuration.
  • csrf: string: a token obtained from the server, used to guard against Cross Site Request Forgeries. Whenever you make a POST, DELETE, PATCH or PUT request to our backend, you need to place this token in the X-CSRFToken header of the request. Otherwise, the request will be rejected (provided that CSRF is enabled on the backend).
  • axiosRequestConfig: An object you can pass to axios calls as config object. It includes the backend url (apiUrl), withCredentials: true and the CSRF token as header.
  • loading: boolean: true if a login request has been sent, but the reply has not yet arrived.
  • login: (userIdentifier: string, password: string) => Promise<void>: triggers a login request. It requires an identifier string, which is either the username or email of the user. Depending on the configuration, the backend accepts either one or only one of them.
  • loggedIn: boolean: an indicator, whether the user is logged in. For this check, you can either use this boolean, or you check if user of UserContext is null.
  • logout: () => Promise<void>: triggers a logout request. If successful, it removes the cookies and sets the user in UserContext to null.
  • justLoggedOut: boolean: Is set to true after a successful logout. However, it is not persistent, so after the next page refresh, it will be set to false again. It is used to display a non-persistent notification that the logout was successful on the login page.
  • updateUserInfo: () => Promise<void>: triggers a request to update both the user object and the CSRF-token. It can be used to obtain the the user itself.
  • register: (username: string, email: string, password: string) => Promise<void>: triggers a request to register a new user. If successful, the server will have sent an email to the email provided as parameter. If unsuccessful, it will raise an exception containing information about which fields need to be corrected. If there are errors not pertaining to a single field, they will be placed in non_field_errors.
  • activateEmailAddress: (userIdentifier: string, token: string) => Promise<void>: triggers a request to validate a user's email address and activate their account. If successful, the user in question is able to login.
  • requestPasswordReset: (email: string) => Promise<void>: triggers a request to the password reset endpoint, which sends an email with a link to the provided email, if that email indeed belongs to a user in the database. However, the backend's response is positive regardless, of whether the email is in the database or not.
  • resetPassword: (ident: string, token: string, password: string) => Promise<void>: triggers a request to reset a users password. If successful, the promise will be resolved. If unsuccessful, it will raise an exception containing information about which fields need to be corrected.

UserContext

This is a react Context and can be used as such. Its Consumer will receive the following fields:

  • user: { id: number; username: string; email: string }|undefined

You can configure the type of user with makeComponents, makeGenericUserStore, configureAuthReactRouter or configureAuthNext. If it is undefined, the user is not logged in.

useUserStore

useUserStore is a react hook, which can be used to obtain user information and helper functions stored in the UserStore. It returns an object containing the user object provided by UserContext, as well as all the fields that AuthfunctionContext provides.

LoginView

Styled page wrapper for a LoginForm.

Parameters

  • translator?: Translator: A function which maps keys to user facing strings.

Example

const App: React.FC = () => (
  <UserStore>
    <LoginView />
  </UserStore>
);

LoginForm

LoginForm is a react component that provides a Material UI Paper wrapper and contains two input fields (username/email and password) and a submit button. There are also links to registration and password recovery.

Parameters

  • translator?: Translator: A function which maps keys to user facing strings.

RegisterView

Styled page wrapper for a RegisterForm.

Parameters

  • translator?: Translator: A function which maps keys to user facing strings.

Example

const App: React.FC = () => (
  <UserStore>
    <RegisterView />
  </UserStore>
);

RegisterForm

RegisterForm is a react component that provides a Material UI Paper wrapper and contains three input fields (username, email and password) and a submit button. There is also a link to the login page.

Parameters

  • translator?: Translator: A function which maps keys to user facing strings.

ActivateEmailAddress

This component analyses the current URL to find the user identifier and email activation token, which are needed to activate a user's email address. If found, they are sent to the /activate_email/ endpoint of the backend and the result of that request is rendered as error or success view. While waiting for the request, a loading indicator is shown. This component needs to be placed within a Route so the the query parameters ident and token can be read. It also needs a UserStore as parent somewhere in the tree, so that it can find the activateEmailAddress function.

Parameters

  • translator?: Translator: A function which maps keys to user facing strings.

Example

<Route
  path={`${authPath}/activation/`}
  component={ActivateEmailAddress}
  key="activation"
/>

Note

Be aware that ActivateEmailAddress should not reside inside a ProtectedRoute, as it needs to be accessible to users who are not logged in.

ForgotPasswordView

Styled page wrapper for a ForgotPasswordForm.

Parameters

  • translator?: Translator: A function which maps keys to user facing strings.

Example

const App: React.FC = () => (
  <UserStore>
    <ForgotPasswordView />
  </UserStore>
);

ForgotPasswordForm

ForgotPasswordForm is a react component that provides a Material UI Paper wrapper and contains one input field (email) and a submit button. Upon submit the requestPasswordReset() method of the AuthFunctionContext is called. There is also a link to the login page.

Parameters

  • translator?: Translator: A function which maps keys to user facing strings.

ResetPasswordView

Styled page wrapper for a ResetPasswordForm.

Parameters

  • translator?: Translator: A function which maps keys to user facing strings.

Example

const App: React.FC = () => (
  <UserStore>
    <ResetPasswordView />
  </UserStore>
);

ResetPasswordForm

ResetPasswordForm is a react component that provides a Material UI Paper wrapper and contains two input fields (password and password-repeat) and a submit button. Upon submit the resetPassword() method of the AuthFunctionContext is called.

Parameters

  • translator?: Translator: A function which maps keys to user facing strings.

React Router Integration

configureAuthReactRouter

This function provides default values to the mandatory ones of makeComponents. It uses the widely used react-router library to define functionality for page transitions.

Parameters

The parameters are identical to those of makeComponents, with the exception that there is no routing field.

Returns

An object containing all components returned by makeComponents, as well as

Example

import { configureAuthReactRouter } from 'ai-kit-auth';

export const { UserStore, useUserStore, makeAuthRoutes, ProtectedRoute } =
  configureAuthReactRouter({
    api: {
      url: 'http://localhost:8000/api/v1/',
      authPath: 'auth/',
    },
  });

makeAuthRoutes

This function is the fastest way to get started with AI-KIT and react-router. It returns an array of all the necessary frontend routes and views for authentication, like login, registration, password reset etc. It creates a Route for each entry in defaultConfig.paths, except for mainPage and base. If you configure disableUserRegistration: true, the register path will not get a route. Call this function in your App component inside a Switch.

Parameters

  • translator?: Translator: A function which maps keys to user facing strings.

Returns

A list of JSX.Elements (Routes), which can be placed directly in a react-router-dom Switch.

Example

import React from 'react';
import { makeAuthRoutes } from 'ai-kit-auth';
import ...

const App: React.FC = () => (
  <UserStore>
    <BrowserRouter>
        <Switch>
            {makeAuthRoutes()}
            <Route ... />
            ...
        </Switch>
    </BrowserRouter>
  </UserStore>
);

export default App;

ProtectedRoute

A wrapper for <Route> routes that should only be available to users that are logged in. It checks with the UserContext if the user is in fact logged in. If not, it will redirect to the login screen (default: /auth/login). During the check a loading indicator is shown.

Example

<UserStore>
  <BrowserRouter>
    <Switch>
      <ProtectedRoute path="/">
        <div>Hello World</div>
      </ProtectedRoute>
    </Switch>
  </BrowserRouter>
</UserStore>

LoginRoute

Use this wrapper for <Route> as Route for a login page, if you are not using makeAuthRoutes. It uses the AuthFunctionContext to see if a user is logged in or not. When the user is logged in it redirects to it's referrer. If there is no referrer, it redirects to the main page (default '/').

Example

<UserStore>
  <BrowserRouter>
    <Routes>
      <LoginRoute path="/auth/login" component={LoginView} />
    </Routes>
  </BrowserRouter>
</UserStore>

Next JS Integration

configureAuthNext

This function provides default values to the mandatory ones of makeComponents. It uses the very popular next.js framework for routing.

Parameters

The parameters are identical to those of makeComponents, with the exception that there is no routing field.

Returns

An object containing all components returned by makeComponents, as well as

Example

import { configureAuthNext } from 'ai-kit-auth';

export const { UserStore, useUserStore, makeAuthRoutes, ProtectedRoute } =
  configureAuthNext({
    api: {
      url: 'http://localhost:8000/api/v1',
      authPath: 'auth/',
    },
  });

AuthPage

You can use this component to render all authentication pages using a dynamic route. For this to work, simply export it from a file [authpage].tsx or [authpage].jsx in the folder pages/auth/ in your next.js project, or, if you configured paths.base, in the folder pages/<paths.base>/.

Props

  • t?: Translator If you work with next-i18next, you can use the appWithTranslation HOC or the serverSideTranslation to provide a translator function, which is passed to all dynamic pages automatically.

Example

import React from 'react';
import { serverSideTranslations } from 'next-i18next/serverSideTranslations';
import { AuthPage } from '../../src/configureAuth';

export default AuthPage;

export const getStaticProps = async ({ locale }) => ({
  props: {
    ...(await serverSideTranslations(locale, ['auth'])),
  },
});

PrivateProtection

You can wrap content, that requires login, in this component in order to send visitors who are not logged in straight to the login page when they try to see the wrapped content. If you do not provide user info during server side rendering, a loading indicator will be rendered instead of the content.

Example

import React from 'react';
import { useUserStore, PrivateProtection } from '../configureAuth';

export const MyComponentThatNeedsAUser: React.FC => () => {
  const { user } = useUserStore();

  return (
    <PrivateProtection>
      Hello, {user?.username}
    </PrivateProtection>
  );
};

LoginComponent

This component is a wrapper for LoginView and redirects to the previous page or the main page in case the user is already logged in. If you use AuthPage, you will not need this component.

Props

Example

const MyPage = () => (
  <UserStore>
    <LoginComponent />
  </UserStore>
);

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