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By Steve Hobbs

This tutorial demonstrates how to add user login to a React Native application using Auth0. We recommend that you log in to follow this quickstart with examples configured for your account.

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System requirements: React Native 0.62.2 | NodeJS 10.16

This Quickstart is for the React Native framework. To integrate Auth0 into your Expo application, please refer to the Expo Quickstart

Configure Auth0

Get Your Application Keys

When you signed up for Auth0, a new application was created for you, or you could have created a new one. You will need some details about that application to communicate with Auth0. You can get these details from the Application Settings section in the Auth0 dashboard.

App Dashboard

You need the following information:

  • Domain
  • Client ID

Install Dependencies

In this section, you will install the React Native Auth0 module.

Yarn

yarn add react-native-auth0

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npm

npm install react-native-auth0 --save

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Additional iOS step: install the module Pod

CocoaPods is the iOS package management tool the React Native framework uses to install itself into your project. For the iOS native module to work with your iOS app, first install the library Pod. If you're familiar with older React Native SDK versions, this is similar to the previous linking a native module. The process is now simplified:

Change directory into the ios folder and run pod install.

cd ios
pod install

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First, you must provide a way for your users to log in. We recommend using the Auth0 hosted login page.

Universal Login

Integrate Auth0 in Your Application

Configure Android

Open your app's build.gradle file (typically at android/app/build.gradle) and add the following manifest placeholders. The value for auth0Domain should contain your Auth0 application settings as configured above.

android {
    defaultConfig {
        // Add the next line
        manifestPlaceholders = [auth0Domain: "{yourDomain}", auth0Scheme: "${applicationId}"]
    }
    ...
}

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Configure iOS

In the file ios/<YOUR PROJECT>/AppDelegate.mm add the following:

#import <React/RCTLinkingManager.h>

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)app openURL:(NSURL *)url
            options:(NSDictionary<UIApplicationOpenURLOptionsKey, id> *)options
{
  return [RCTLinkingManager application:app openURL:url options:options];
}

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Next, add a URLScheme using your App's bundle identifier.

In the ios folder, open the Info.plist and locate the value for CFBundleIdentifier

<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
<string>$(PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER)</string>

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Below this value, register a URL type entry using the value of CFBundleIdentifier as the value for the CFBundleURLSchemes.

<key>CFBundleURLTypes</key>
<array>
    <dict>
        <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
        <string>None</string>
        <key>CFBundleURLName</key>
        <string>auth0</string>
        <key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
        <array>
            <string>$(PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER)</string>
        </array>
    </dict>
</array>

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Note this value as you'll be using it to define the callback URLs below. If desired, you can change it using XCode in the following way:

  • Open the ios/<YOUR PROJECT>.xcodeproj file or run xed ios on a Terminal from the app root.
  • Open your project's or desired target's Build Settings tab and find the section that contains "Bundle Identifier".
  • Replace the "Bundle Identifier" value with your desired application's bundle identifier name.

For additional information please read react native docs.

Configure Callback URLs

A callback URL is a URL in your application where Auth0 redirects the user after they have authenticated. The callback URL for your app must be added to the Allowed Callback URLs field in your Application Settings. If this field is not set, users will be unable to log in to the application and will get an error.

iOS callback URL

{PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER}://{yourDomain}/ios/{PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER}/callback

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Remember to replace {PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER} with your actual application's bundle identifier name.

Android callback URL

{YOUR_APP_PACKAGE_NAME}://{yourDomain}/android/{YOUR_APP_PACKAGE_NAME}/callback

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Remember to replace {YOUR_APP_PACKAGE_NAME} with your actual application's package name.

Configure Logout URLs

A logout URL is a URL in your application that Auth0 can return to after the user has been logged out of the authorization server. This is specified in the returnTo query parameter. The logout URL for your app must be added to the Allowed Logout URLs field in your Application Settings. If this field is not set, users will be unable to log out from the application and will get an error.

iOS logout URL

{PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER}://{yourDomain}/ios/{PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER}/callback

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Remember to replace {PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER} with your actual application's bundle identifier name.

Android logout URL

{YOUR_APP_PACKAGE_NAME}://{yourDomain}/android/{YOUR_APP_PACKAGE_NAME}/callback

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Remember to replace {YOUR_APP_PACKAGE_NAME} with your actual application's package name.

Add login to your app

Import the useAuth0 hook and the Auth0Provider component from the react-native-auth0 package.

import {useAuth0, Auth0Provider} from 'react-native-auth0';

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Next, wrap your application in the Auth0Provider component, providing your Auth0 domain and Client ID values:

const App = () => {
  return (
    <Auth0Provider domain={"{yourDomain}"} clientId={"{yourClientId}"}>
      {/* your application */}
    </Auth0Provider>
  );
};

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Finally, present the hosted login screen using the authorize method from the useAuth0 hook. See this usage example showing logging in on a button click:

const LoginButton = () => {
    const {authorize} = useAuth0();

    const onPress = async () => {
        try {
            await authorize();
        } catch (e) {
            console.log(e);
        }
    };

    return <Button onPress={onPress} title="Log in" />
}

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Checkpoint

Add a button component that calls authorize when clicked. Verify that you are redirected to the login page and then back to your application.

Add logout to your app

To log the user out, redirect them to the Auth0 log out endpoint by importing and calling the clearSession method from the useAuth0 hook. This method removes their session from the authorization server.

See this usage example of a button that logs the user out of the app when clicked:

const LogoutButton = () => {
    const {clearSession} = useAuth0();

    const onPress = async () => {
        try {
            await clearSession();
        } catch (e) {
            console.log(e);
        }
    };

    return <Button onPress={onPress} title="Log out" />
}

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Checkpoint

Add a button that calls clearSession when clicked. Verify that you are logged out of the application when clicked.

Show user profile information

The useAuth0 hook exposes a user object that contains information about the authenticated user. You can use this to access decoded user profile information about the authenticated user from the ID token.

If a user has not been authenticated, this property will be null.

const Profile = () => {
    const {user} = useAuth0();

    return (
        <>
            {user && <Text>Logged in as {user.name}</Text>}
            {!user && <Text>Not logged in</Text>}
        </>
    )
}

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Checkpoint

Add a component to your app that uses the user prop to display information about the user on the screen.

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