usegapi

React Hook for using Gapi (Google's SignIn Javascript authentication client)

Install

npm install --save usegapi

Prerequisites

• Add a REACT_APP_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID environment variable to your .env file, containing your Google client ID.

• Choose the OAuth scope(s) for the Google API that you will want to access.
  This scope will be passed to the hook as a parameter.

If you don't have a Google client ID, go to https://console.developers.google.com
List of scopes: https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/googlescopes

Usage

import React from 'react'
import useGapi from 'usegapi'

const Login = () => {
    // using the readonly youtube scope for this example
    // response will either contain the user data or an error object

    const response = useGapi('https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.readonly')

    return (
        <>
            // mandatory div. use this exact same id !!!
            <div id='google-signin-button'/>
        </>
    )
}

License

MIT © bradeac

This hook is created using create-react-hook.