Authentication

Gradient able react hooks supports 3 popular authentication methods.

Gradient Able React Hooks supports 3 authentication methods: Firebase Authentication, JSON Web Token, Auth0. We provide Firebase Authentication by default.

How does it work?

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

We implemented to make this work the “Guard” concept from Angular. It is simply a component that wraps a route and checks for user authentication status before allowing the navigation.

We used two guards GuestGuard and AuthGuard, To find more information about guards, please visit the Routes.js page.

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

import { FirebaseProvider } from "./contexts/FirebaseContext";

App component wrap with the provider, like

<ThemeProvider theme={theme(customization)}>
  <FirebaseProvider>
      {renderRoutes(routes)}
  </FirebaseProvider>
</ThemeProvider>

Using FirebaseProvider, we can use the context directly by importing useContext from React and specifying the context FirebaseContext that we want to use or we can use the custom hook useAuth from src/hooks/useAuth.js

Auth Configuration:

You can edit this file at [ ../src/config/constant.js]

// JWT JSON Web Token method
jwt: {
    secret: 'SECRET-KEY',
    timeout: '1 days'
},

// Firebase Authentication method
firebase: {
    apiKey: "API-KEY",
    authDomain: "AUTH-DOMAIN",
    databaseURL: "DATABASE-URL",
    projectId: "PROJECT-ID",
    storageBucket: "STORAGE-BUCKET",
    messagingSenderId: "MESSAGEING-SENDER-ID",
    appId: "APP-ID",
    measurementId: "MEASUREMENT-ID"
},

// Auth0 method
auth0: {
    client_id: 'CLIENT-ID',
    domain: 'DOMAIN'
}

Switching between Authentication methods

Firebase to JWT

Set JWT Config - Open file 'constant.js' at directory '../src/config/constant.js' and set jwt configuration.

export default {
	...
	jwt: {
      secret: 'SECRET-KEY',
      timeout: '1 days'
  }
}

Change Login Form - Open file 'index.js' at directory '../src/views/auth/signin/SignIn1.js', and use the JWTLogin component.

// Replace at line 8:
import JWTLogin from './JWTLogin';

// Replace at line 21: 
<JWTLogin />

AuthProvider for Layout - Open file 'App.js' at directory '../src/layout/App.js' and use JWTProvider

// Replace at line 6;
import { JWTProvider } from "./contexts/JWTContext";

// Replace from line 22:
<JWTProvider>
    {renderRoutes(routes)}
</JWTProvider>

Change auth Hooks - Open file 'useAuth.js' at directory '../src/hooks/useAuth.js' and use JWTContext

// Replace from line 2:
import JWTContext from '../contexts/JWTContext';
const useAuth = () => useContext(JWTContext);

Firebase to Auth0

Set Auth Config - Open file 'constant.js' at directory '../src/config/constant.js' and set auth0 configuration.

export default {
	...
	auth0: {
		client_id: 'HvYn25WaEHb7v5PBT7cTYe98XATStX3r',
		domain: 'demo-localhost.us.auth0.com'
  }
}

Change Login Form - Open file 'index.js' at directory '../src/views/auth/signin/SignIn1.js', and use Auth0Login component.

// Replace at line 8:
import Auth0Login from './Auth0Login';

// Replace at line 21: 
<Auth0Login />

AuthProvider for Layout - Open file 'App.js' at directory '../src/layout/App.js' and use Auth0Provider

// Replace at line 6;
import { Auth0Provider } from "./contexts/Auth0Context";

// Replace from line 22:
<Auth0Provider>
    {renderRoutes(routes)}
</Auth0Provider>

Change auth Hooks - Open file 'useAuth.js' at directory '../src/hooks/useAuth.js' and use Auth0Context

// Replace from line 2:
import Auth0Context from '../contexts/Auth0Context';
const useAuth = () => useContext(Auth0Context);