Authentication

JWT, Firebase, and Auth0 setup

Datta Able includes four Authentication methods JSON Web Token (JWT), Firebase, and Auth0 for its users. Users can change it as per their needs.

JWT Authentication is set by default

How does it work?

Only authenticated users can access dashboard pages. If a user is not authenticated, the user is redirected to the login page.

We used two guards GuestGuard and AuthGuard. Guards have been configured in \components\Auth\ folder.

In the src/layout/App.js, we have specified auth provider JWTProvider like,

App.js

import { JWTProvider as AuthProvider } from 'contexts/JWTContext';

App component wrap with the <JWTProvider>

<ThemeCustomization>
  ...
  <AuthProvider>
    <Routes />
    <Snackbar />
  </AuthProvider>
  ...
</ThemeCustomization>

Using <JWTProvider>, we can use the context directly by importing useContext from React and specifying the context JWTContext or we can use the custom hook useAuth from src/hooks/useAuth.js

Auth Configuration:

All configurations related to authentication are stored in config.js. Those configs are like APIKey to connect authentication server, project id, etc.

Datta Able has a dummy/test config to make authentication work. Users have to change API and secret as per their project needs. One must not use those provided keys in their live environment.

.env

## Firebase - Google Auth 
REACT_APP_FIREBASE_API_KEY=
REACT_APP_FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN=
REACT_APP_FIREBASE_PROJECT_ID=
REACT_APP_FIREBASE_STORAGE_BUCKET=
REACT_APP_FIREBASE_MESSAGING_SENDER_ID=
REACT_APP_FIREBASE_APP_ID=
REACT_APP_FIREBASE_MEASUREMENT_ID=

## Auth0
REACT_APP_AUTH0_CLIENT_ID=
REACT_APP_AUTH0_DOMAIN=

The theme provides working an example for Login and Register only. Other flow like reset password, verification have to make it workable by the user himself.

Switching between Authentication methods

JWT to Auth0

JWT to Firebase