Authenticate users with OpenID Connect authentication service (f.e. Keycloak)

Main features:

1. TypeScript support
2. ESModule support
3. Working with React, Angular and other popular front-end libraries
4. Logging user in using redirect to the auth service
5. Getting user info claims
6. Supplying access token for requests to the back-end
7. Automatic refreshing of the access token with refresh token when it expires
8. Logging user out from the application and from the auth service

How to use

1. Install library using npm

2. Import AuthService

3. Initialize AuthService

Config object fields:

1. authority: URL to the authentication service (f.e. http://[host]/realms/[realm-name])
2. clientId: ID of the application registered within authentication service
3. (OPTIONAL) autoLogin: whether authentication should start automatically on page load
   • Defaults to false
4. (OPTIONAL) callbackUrl: a URL the user will be returned to after completing login/logout
   • Defaults to window.location.href
5. (OPTIONAL) errorHandler: callback function that will be called in case of auth errors
   • Defaults to (error) => console.log(error)

4. Start login

Login will be started automatically if it was configured to do so, if no, you can start it by

You can also override a URL the user will be returned to after login:

5. Check login status

You can check login status with

6. Get user info claims

To get user info claim you can use

7. Get access token to make requests

You can get user access token with

8. Force refresh

You can force lib to refresh tokens and user info with:

9. Logout user

You can log out user from your application and authentication service with

You can also override a URL the user will be returned to after logout:

Copyright

Released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file.