Auth Armor Javascript Client-Side SDK UI

Auth Armor provides a SaaS solution to authenticate your users exclusively using passwordless authentication methods such as passkeys, magic links and the proprietary Auth Armor mobile app.

This package provides a flexible and full-featured UI around the @autharmor/autharmor-js package. It provides a Web Components-based form component that can be used to log in and register users and an interactive client interface that can be used for imperatively launching login or registration requests (such as for two-factor authentication).

This package is designed to work together with @autharmor/autharmor-js. A knowledge of how that package works will be helpful in using this package.

Installation

This package is available on the NPM registry as @autharmor/autharmor-js-ui. You must have the @autharmor/autharmor-js package to use it. Use your project's package manager to install both the packages:

1# NPM
2npm install @autharmor/autharmor-js @autharmor/autharmor-js-ui
3
4# PNPM
5pnpm add @autharmor/autharmor-js @autharmor/autharmor-js-ui
6
7# Yarn
8yarn add @autharmor/autharmor-js @autharmor/autharmor-js-ui

You can then import the CSS styles from node_modules/@autharmor/autharmor-js-ui/dist/esm/autharmor-js-ui.css.

In projects without an NPM package manager, we also serve an IIFE bundle from our CDN which you can load as follows:

1<script src="https://cdn.autharmor.com/scripts/autharmor-js/4.0.0-rc.1/global/autharmor-js.js"></script>
2<script src="https://cdn.autharmor.com/scripts/autharmor-js-ui/4.0.0-rc.1/global/autharmor-js-ui.js"></script>

1<link
2    rel="stylesheet"
3    href="https://cdn.autharmor.com/scripts/autharmor-js-ui/4.0.0-rc.1/global/autharmor-js-ui.css"
4/>

This module's exports will then be available in the authArmorUi global variable. Instead of import statements, you can use destructuring:

1const { AuthArmorInteractiveClient } = authArmorUi;

Initial Setup

In order to use the functionality offered by this package, you must first create an AuthArmorClient instance. That class and the instructions for doing that are part of the @autharmor/autharmor-js.

Once you have your AuthArmorClient instance created, you can use the UI in one of two ways (or both, if that suits your use-case).

The code samples assume that you already have an AuthArmorClient ready with the name authArmorClient.

Using the Interactive Client

This package provides the AuthArmorInteractiveClient class to imperatively create authentication requests. Unlike the AuthArmorClient class where everything is done programmatically and you are responsible for collecting inputs from and providing visual feedback to the user, this class includes a UI which will be displayed to the user to request their interaction and show them the status of the authentication request.

Creating an Interactive Client

To create an AuthArmorInteractiveClient, pass it your AuthArmorClient as the first parameter, and, optionally, an IInteractiveClientConfiguration object as the second parameter:

1const authArmorInteractiveClient = new AuthArmorInteractiveClient(authArmorClient, {});

You must import AuthArmorinteractiveClient at the top of your file:

1import { AuthArmorInteractiveClient } from "@autharmor/autharmor-js-ui";

Logging a User In

Then, to authenticate, you can call the authenticateAsync method passing their username:

1const authenticationResult = await authArmorInteractiveClient.authenticate("username");

The user will be prompted to select their authentication method (if applicable—i.e., they have more than one available method), and they will then be authenticated using their selected method.

In most cases, a promise containing an AuthenticationResult will be returned to you. This type is part of the @autharmor/autharmor-js package and you can refer to its documentation to see how you would use that result. In short, it contains an authentication request ID, the authentication method that was used, and the authentication validation token.

Auth Armor will not store the authentication state for you. You must pass it to your backend and process it for authentication to be useful.

However, if the nature of the authentication means that the user will not be authenticated on the same session the promise returned will never resolve (unless the request failed). Currently, this applies to email magic link authentication: the user will get authenticated on the tab that opens once they click the link in the email, not on the tab where the authentication request originated. The authentication result will be available on the target page as query string parameters in the URL.

Registering a User

Registering a user is similar and uses the registerAsync method:

1const registrationResult = await authArmorInteractiveClient.registerAsync("username");

As before, the user will be prompted to select their registration method (provided you have more than one method enabled) and they will then be registered with that method. A promise with the RegistrationResult will be returned, following the same principles as with logging in for out-of-band methods such as magic link email registration.

Using the Form

Another way you can authenticate users is by rendering the built-in authentication form. This form collects users' usernames to allow them to start login or registration requests themselves and also displays a QR code that they can simply scan with the app to log themselves in.

Rendering the Form

This form is automatically registered as a web component with the name autharmor-form. You can render it somewhere in your markup, and you will need to get a reference to it in your JavaScript code:

1<autharmor-form id="myForm"></autharmor-form>

1const authArmorForm = document.getElementById("myForm");

It is possible to programmatically create it, too:

1<div id="myFormContainer"></div>

1const authArmorForm = document.createElement("autharmor-form");
2
3const formContainer = document.getElementById("myFormContainer");
4formContainer.appendChild(authArmorForm);

In either case, you will have a reference to the form in your JavaScript code. You will need to provide the form with your AuthArmorClient as the client property:

1authArmorForm.client = authArmorClient;

Once you set this property, the form will be rendered.

Handling Events

The form will emit a DOM event whenever the user successfully authenticates or registers, whenever an authentication or registration request fails, and whenever an error is encountered. To listen to these events, you can add event listeners to the form:

1authArmorForm.addEventListener("logIn", (logInEvent) => {
2    const { authenticationResult } = logInEvent;
3
4    // Send the authentication result to the backend for validation.
5});

The following events are available on autharmor-form components:

Event	Type	Description
logIn	LogInEvent	Invoked when the form has successfully authenticated a user.
register	RegisterEvent	Invoked when the form has successfully registered a user.
logInFailure	LogInFailureEvent	Invoked when the form has attempted and failed to authenticate a user.
registerFailure	RegisterFailureEvent	Invoked when the form has attempted and failed to register a user.
error	ErrorThrownEvent	Invoked when the form has encountered an error.

Providing a Configuration Object

You can optionally provide an IInteractiveClientConfiguration object with the interactiveConfig property

1authArmorForm.interactiveConfig = {};

For example, to customize the UI, you can specify the uiOptions object. For example, you can use the color #000510 for QR codes like this:

1authArmorForm.interactiveConfig = {
2    uiOptions: {
3        qrCodeForegroundColor: "#000510"
4    }
5};

For a list of all properties you can define within the uiOptions property, see IUiOptions.ts.

Similarly, you can customize all the strings that are displayed in the UI by providing an ITranslationTable object as the internationalizationOptions.translationTable property:

1authArmorForm.interactiveConfig = {
2    internationalizationOptions: {
3        translationTable: { ... }
4    }
5};

For an example translation table, see defaultTranslationTable.

Properties and Attributes

The following properties and attributes are available on autharmor-form components:

Property	Attribute	Type	Default	Description
client	N/A	AuthArmorClient	null	The AuthArmorClient to use for communicating with the Auth Armor API.
interactiveConfig	N/A	IInteractiveClientConfiguration	{}	The configuration to use for this interactive client.
action	action	"logIn" | "register" | null	null	The action that this form will enforce, or null to allow the user to choose.
username	username	string | null	null	The username that this form will enforce, or null to allow the user to choose.
method	method	"authenticator" | "magicLinkEmail" | "passkey" | null	null	The method that this form will enforce, or null to allow the user to choose.
defaultAction	default-action	"logIn" | "register" | null	null	The default action that this form will use, with the user being allowed to override this selection.
enableUsernamelessLogIn	enable-usernameless-log-in	boolean	true	Whether the form allows usernameless QR code log in or not, regardless of whether authenticator is an allowed method or not, or if a method is specified.