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react-oauth2-hook

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requires immutable

requires prop-types

requires react

requires react-dom

requires react-storage-hook

summary Retrieve OAuth2 implicit grant tokens purely on the client without destroying application state.

version 1.0.11

author zemnmez

copyright zemnmez 2019

license MIT

Installation

yarn add react-oauth2-hook

Overview

This package provides an entirely client-side flow to get OAuth2 implicit grant tokens. It's implemented as a react hook, useOAuth2Token, with a fairly simple API and a react component, OAuthCallback which should be mounted at the OAuth callback endpoint.

Take a look at the Example for usage information.

Security Considerations

OAuth 2 is a very sensitive protocol. I've done my best to provide good security guarantees with this package.

I assume that your application follows reasonable best practices like using X-Frame-Options to prevent clickjacking based attacks.

State

The State token prevents an attacker from forcing a user to sign in as the attacker's account using a kind of CSRF. Here, I am cautious against multiple types of attacks.

My state token is not signed, it's a completely static concatenation of some entropy generated by webcrypto and a key, composed of JSON.stringify({ authUrl, clientID, scopes }). When the callback is recieved by OAuthCallback, it is compared strictly to the stored value, and otherwise rejected.

This prevents both attacks where an attacker would try to submit a token to the user's browser without their consent, and attacks where a malicious OAuth server would (re)use the n-once to authenticate a callback from a different server.

Timing attacks

The state token is not compared using a fixed-time string comparison. Where typically, this would lead to an attacker being able to use a lot of time and statistics to side-channel out the state token, this should be irrelevant in this configuration, this should be extremely difficult to pull off accurately as any timing information would be inaccessible or heavily diluted.

Refresh tokens

This library in-and-of-itself does not acquire long lived refresh tokens. Though some OAuth servers allow implicit clients to acquire refresh tokens without an OAuth secret, this isn't part of the OAuth standard. Instead, consider simply triggering the authorize flow when the token expires -- if the user is still authorized, the window should almost immediately close. Otherwise, you can use any special APIs that would let you do this, or skip this library entirely and try PKCE.

Example

example

import React from 'react'
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Switch } from 'react-router-dom'
import { useOAuth2Token, OAuthCallback } from 'react-oauth2-hook'
 
// in this example, we get a Spotify OAuth
// token and use it to show a user's saved
// tracks.
 
export default () => <Router>
  <Switch>
    <Route path="/callback" component={OAuthCallback}/>
    <Route component={SavedTracks}/>
  </Switch>
</Router>
 
const SavedTracks = () => {
  const [token, getToken] = useOAuth2Token({
    authorizeUrl: "https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize",
    scope: ["user-library-read"],
    clientID: "bd9844d654f242f782509461bdba068c",
    redirectUri: document.location.href+"/callback"
  })
 
  const [tracks, setTracks] = React.useState();
  const [error, setError] = React.useState();
 
  // query spotify when we get a token
  React.useEffect(() => {
    fetch(
      'https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/tracks?limit=50'
    ).then(response => response.json()).then(
      data => setTracks(data)
    ).catch(error => setError(error))
  }, [token])
 
  return <div>
    {error && `Error occurred: ${error}`}
    {(!token || !savedTracks) && <div
      onClick={getToken}>
        login with Spotify
    </div>}
    {savedTracks && `
      Your Saved Tracks: ${JSON.stringify(savedTracks)}
    `}
  </div>
}

Index

Type aliases

• OAuthToken
• getToken
• setToken

Variables

• ErrIncorrectStateToken
• ErrNoAccessToken

Functions

• OAuthCallback
• useOAuth2Token

Type aliases

OAuthToken

Ƭ OAuthToken: string

Defined in index.tsx:157

OAuthToken represents an OAuth2 implicit grant token.

getToken

Ƭ getToken: function

Defined in index.tsx:163

getToken is returned by useOAuth2Token. When called, it prompts the user to authorize.

Type declaration:

▸ (): void

setToken

Ƭ setToken: function

Defined in index.tsx:171

setToken is returned by useOAuth2Token. When called, it overwrites any stored OAuth token. setToken(undefined) can be used to synchronously invalidate all instances of this OAuth token.

Type declaration:

▸ (newValue: OAuthToken | undefined): void

Parameters:

Variables

Const ErrIncorrectStateToken

• ErrIncorrectStateToken: Error = new Error('incorrect state token')

Defined in index.tsx:210

This error is thrown by the OAuthCallback when the state token recieved is incorrect or does not exist.

Const ErrNoAccessToken

• ErrNoAccessToken: Error = new Error('no access_token')

Defined in index.tsx:216

This error is thrown by the OAuthCallback if no access_token is recieved.

Functions

Const OAuthCallback

▸ OAuthCallback(__namedParameters: object): Element

Defined in index.tsx:274

OAuthCallback is a React component that handles the callback step of the OAuth2 protocol.

OAuth2Callback is expected to be rendered on the url corresponding to your redirect_uri.

By default, this component will deal with errors by closing the window, via its own React error boundary. Pass { errorBoundary: false } to handle this functionality yourself.

Parameters:

▪ __namedParameters: object

Returns: Element

Const useOAuth2Token

▸ useOAuth2Token(__namedParameters: object): [OAuthToken | undefined, getToken, setToken]

Defined in index.tsx:95

useOAuth2Token is a React hook providing an OAuth2 implicit grant token.

When useToken is called, it will attempt to retrieve an existing token by the criteria of { authorizeUrl, scopes, clientID }. If a token by these specifications does not exist, the first item in the returned array will be undefined.

If the user wishes to retrieve a new token, they can call getToken(), a function returned by the second parameter. When called, the function will open a window for the user to confirm the OAuth grant, and pass it back as expected via the hook.

The OAuth token must be passed to a static endpoint. As such, the callbackUrl must be passed with this endpoint. The callbackUrl should render the OAuthCallback component, which will securely verify the token and pass it back, before closing the window.

All instances of this hook requesting the same token and scopes from the same place are synchronised. In concrete terms, if you have many components waiting for a Facebook OAuth token to make a call, they will all immediately update when any component gets a token.

Finally, in advanced cases the user can manually overwrite any stored token by capturing and calling the third item in the reponse array with the new value.

Parameters:

▪ __namedParameters: object

Returns: [OAuthToken | undefined, getToken, setToken]