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Learn to integrate Auth0 with Web3Auth SFA React Native SDK

core kitauth0custom authenticationreact nativeevmWeb3Auth Team | 14 November, 2023

This guide will cover the basics of how to set up your Web3Auth SDK and Auth0 account for the integration and provide you with the links on how to develop a basic React Native Expo application on the blockchain of your choice.

Quick Start

npx degit Web3Auth/web3auth-core-kit-examples/single-factor-auth-react-native/sfa-rn-expo-auth0-example sfa-rn-auth0-demo && cd sfa-rn-auth0-demo && npm install && npm run start

How it works?

Single Factor Auth SDKs allow for the integration of a single factor of authentication, such as social login, into your dApp. They are designed to be simple to use and can be integrated into your dApp with minimal effort, allowing you to directly use the Web3Auth Network for Wallet Management. This is one of the most common use cases of Web3Auth, however, it is semi-custodial in nature, since the key is custodial to the Auth Provider and the Web3Auth Network.

Single Factor Auth SDK Infrastructure
  • The first step for the application is to get the user authenticated by a login provider(here, Google) and get the user's idToken.
  • Once the social login is successful, depending on whether the user has enabled Multi-Factor Authentication(MFA) or not, the key is generated.
  • If the user has not enabled MFA, we use the @web3auth/single-factor-auth SDK to retrieve the private key shares from the Web3Auth auth network nodes and reconstruct the private key.
  • If the user has enabled MFA, an error message is shown that the user has enabled MFA and in this case, they should be using the Web3Auth Plug and Play Web SDKs.

Prerequisites

  • For Web Apps: A basic knowledge of JavaScript is required to use Web3Auth SDK.

  • For Mobile Apps: For the Web3Auth Mobile SDKs, you have a choice between iOS, Android, React Native & Flutter. Please refer to the Web3Auth SDK Reference for more information.

  • Create a Web3Auth account on the Web3Auth Dashboard

  • Create an Auth0 tenant and configure a Single Page Web Application (SPA for Web) or Native (for Mobile) from Auth0 Console.

  • Please note that Regular Web Applications are also supported as mentioned in the flows above. However, for this guide, we prefer SPA since its implicit flow doesn’t require an application to host a backend server.

Setup your Auth0 Tenant

  • Add the following URLs for your app to the Allowed Web Origins field when configuring your Auth0 Application.

    Add Callback URL to Auth0 Dashboard

  • You will require the domain and clientId of the newly created application which you can copy from Auth0 Console. Domain and Client ID from Auth0 Dashboard

Enable Social Login

Enable SMS Passwordless

Optional

If you want to implement SMS Passwordless, then this section is for you. Otherwise, you can skip this.

  • Enable SMS on the Authentication > Passwordless page of your Auth0 Dashboard. Auth0 Dashboard to enable SMS Passwordless Option
  • Under the Settings tab, add your Twilio SID and Twilio AuthToken. Auth0 Dashboard to enable SMS Passwordless | Setup
  • Also, update the From number on the same page, and click on the Save button.
  • Next, enable your application under the Applications tab, and click on the Save button. Auth0 Dashboard to enable SMS Passwordless | Enable App
  • You can test sending an SMS from the Try tab. Once, an SMS comes with OTP, it means it has been successfully configured.
Update Lockscreen for SMS Passwordless
update-lock-screen

If you're to use SMS Passwordless, please visit here to set up the Lock Screen of Auth0 from your Auth0 Dashboard.

Enable Email Passwordless

Optional

If you want to implement Email Passwordless, then this section is for you. Otherwise, you can skip this.

  • Enable Email on the Authentication > Passwordless page of your Auth0 Dashboard. Auth0 Dashboard to enable Email Passwordless Option
  • Under the Settings tab, update From and Subject based on your need and click on the Save button. Auth0 Dashboard to enable Email Passwordless | Setup
  • Next, enable your application under the Applications tab, and click on the Save button. Auth0 Dashboard to enable Email Passwordless | Enable App
  • You can test sending an Email from the Try tab. Once, an Email comes with OTP/Link, it means it has been successfully configured.
Update Lockscreen for Email Passwordless
update-lock-screen

If you're to use Email Passwordless, please visit here to set up the Lock Screen of Auth0 from your Auth0 Dashboard.

Setup your Web3Auth Dashboard

  • Create a Project from the Project Section of the Web3Auth Developer Dashboard.

    Plug n Play Project Creation on Web3Auth Dashboard

    • Enter your desired Project name.

    • Select the Product you want to use. For this guide, we'll be using the Plug n Play product.

    • Select the Platform type you want to use. For this guide, we'll be using the Web Application as the platform.

    • Select the Web3Auth Network as Sapphire Devnet. We recommend creating a project in the sapphire_devnet network during development. While moving to a production environment, make sure to convert your project to sapphire_mainnet or any of the legacy mainnet network mainnet, aqua, or cyan network. Otherwise, you'll end up losing users and keys.

    • Select the blockchain(s) you'll be building this project on. For interoperability with Torus Wallets, you have the option of allowing the user's private key to be used in other applications using Torus Wallets (EVM, Solana, XRPL & Casper).

    • Finally, once you create the project, you have the option to whitelist your URLs for the project. Please whitelist the domains where your project will be hosted.

      Plug n Play Project - Whitelist

Create Auth0 Verifiers

  • Create a Verifier from the Custom Auth Section of the Developer Dashboard with the following configuration:

    • Pick a name of your choice for the verifier identifier. eg. auth0-project

    • Choose Social Login Providers and select Auth0 from the Login Provider dropdown.

    • Next, Choose your Authentication Type from eg. Google, Twitter, GitHub etc.. to be the Auth provider.

    • Paste the Client ID and Auth0 Domain from the Auth0 SPA you created in the above steps. This will be used to validate the JWT token issued by Auth0. And, select Sub or Email as the JWT Verifier ID.

    • Click on the Create Verifier button to create your verifier. It may take up to 10-20 minutes to deploy the verifier on Sapphire Devnet. You'll receive an email once it's complete.

      Create Verifier

    You will require the verifierName of the newly created verifier and clientId of the Plug and Play Project.

Create SMS Passwordless Verifier

Optional

If you want to implement SMS Passwordless, then this section is for you. Otherwise, you can skip this.

  • Create a Verifier from the Custom Auth Section of the Developer Dashboard with the following configuration:

    • Choose a name of your choice for the verifier identifier. eg. auth0-sms-passwordless

    • Select Custom Providers from the Login Provider.

    • Choose Custom for the JWT Verifier ID and type name.

    • Enter https://{YOUR-DOMAIN}/.well-known/jwks.json as your JWKS Endpoint. This will be used to validate the JWT token issued by Auth0. eg. https://web3auth.eu.auth0.com/.well-known/jwks.json

    • JWT validation fields:

      • iss: https://{YOUR-DOMAIN}
      • aud: {AUTH0-CLIENT-ID}
    • Click on the Create button to create your verifier. It may take up to 10-20 minutes to deploy the verifier on Sapphire Devnet. You'll receive an email once it's complete.

      Create SMS Verifier

    You will require the verifierName of the newly created verifier and clientId of the Plug and Play Project.

Create Email Passwordless Verifier

Optional

If you want to implement Email Passwordless, then this section is for you. Otherwise, you can skip this.

  • Create a Verifier from the Custom Auth Section of the Developer Dashboard with the following configuration:

    • Choose a name of your choice for the verifier identifier. eg. auth0-email-passwordless

    • Choose Social Login Providers and select Auth0 from the Login Provider dropdown.

    • Choose your Authentication Type as Email Passwordless to use Auth0's Email Passwordless.

    • Paste the Client ID and Auth0 Domain from the Auth0 SPA you created in the above steps. This will be used to validate the JWT token issued by Auth0.

    • Click on the Create button to create your verifier. It may take up to 10-20 minutes to deploy the verifier on Sapphire Devnet. You'll receive an email once it's complete.

      Create Email Verifier

    You will require the verifierName of the newly created verifier and clientId of the Plug and Play Project.

Using the Web3Auth SFA Web SDK

To use the Web3Auth SFA Web SDK, you need to add @web3auth/single-factor-auth to your project.

Installation

For this project, you need to add the following Web3Auth dependencies to your package.json

npm install --save @web3auth/single-factor-auth-react-native @web3auth/base @web3auth/ethereum-provider ethers react-native-auth0 expo-secure-store

Understanding the Dependencies

@web3auth/base

Since we're using typescript, we need the @web3auth/base package to provide the types of the different variables we'll be using throughout the app-building process. This reduces errors to a very large extent.

npm install --save @web3auth/base
@web3auth/ethereum-provider

This package is used to provide the Ethereum provider to the Web3Auth SDK. This is required to interact with the blockchain.

npm install --save @web3auth/ethereum-provider
@web3auth/single-factor-auth-react-native

This package is the core package for Single Factor Auth React Native SDK.

npm install --save @web3auth/single-factor-auth-react-native
react-native-auth0

This package is used to provide the Auth0 SDK to the app. This is required to retrieve the idToken from Auth0 as the login provider.

npm install --save @auth0/auth0-react
ethers

This package is used to interact with the blockchain.

npm install --save web3

expo-secure-store

This package is used to store the private key shares in the device's secure storage.

npm install --save expo-secure-store

Configure Auth0 for React Native

Please follow the guide here to configure Auth0 for React Native.

Initialization

Once installed, your Web3Auth application needs to be initialized. Initialization is a multi-step process where we add all the config details for Web3Auth SDK:

Importing the packages
import { IProvider } from "@web3auth/base";
import { EthereumPrivateKeyProvider } from "@web3auth/ethereum-provider";
import Web3Auth from "@web3auth/single-factor-auth-react-native";
import { ethers } from "ethers";
import * as SecureStore from "expo-secure-store";
import { Auth0Provider, useAuth0 } from "react-native-auth0";
Instantiate the Web3Auth SFA React Native SDK
import { IProvider } from "@web3auth/base";
import { EthereumPrivateKeyProvider } from "@web3auth/ethereum-provider";
import Web3Auth from "@web3auth/single-factor-auth-react-native";
import { ethers } from "ethers";
import * as SecureStore from "expo-secure-store";
import { Auth0Provider, useAuth0 } from "react-native-auth0";

const clientId =
"BPi5PB_UiIZ-cPz1GtV5i1I2iOSOHuimiXBI0e-Oe_u6X3oVAbCiAZOTEBtTXw4tsluTITPqA8zMsfxIKMjiqNQ"; // get from https://dashboard.web3auth.io

const chainConfig = {
chainId: "0x1",
displayName: "Ethereum Mainnet",
chainNamespace: CHAIN_NAMESPACES.EIP155,
tickerName: "Ethereum",
ticker: "ETH",
decimals: 18,
rpcTarget: "https://rpc.ankr.com/eth",
blockExplorer: "https://etherscan.io",
};

// Initialising Web3Auth Single Factor Auth SDK
const web3auth = new Web3Auth(SecureStore, {
clientId,
web3AuthNetwork: "sapphire_mainnet",
usePnPKey: false, // By default, this sdk returns CoreKitKey
});

const privateKeyProvider = new EthereumPrivateKeyProvider({
config: { chainConfig },
});

Here, we're using the chainConfig property to set the chainId and chainNamespace among other parameters. The chainId and chainNamespace are the id and the namespace respectively of the chain you're connecting to. We've initialized them for EVM for this guide. You can find the list of available providers here to select from.

Additionally, sometimes you might face clogging in the network because the test network is a bit clogged at that point. To avoid this, we can use the property rpcTarget and pass over the URL of the node you want to connect to.

Initializing the Web3Auth SDK

web3authSfa.init(privateKeyProvider);

Authentication

Getting the idToken from Auth0 upon login

const { authorize, clearSession, getCredentials } = useAuth0();

const signInWithAuth0 = async () => {
try {
// @ts-ignore
await authorize(
{ scope: "openid profile email" },
{ customScheme: "auth0.com.web3authsfaauth0" },
{ responseType: "token id_token" },
);
const credentials = await getCredentials();

return credentials.idToken;
} catch (error) {
console.error(error);
}
};

Parsing the token

We need to parse the token to get the sub field from the token. This is the unique identifier for the user. This is dependent on the verifierId field you've set on the dashboard. In our case, it's sub. The code for parsing the idToken is as follows:

import { safeatob } from "@toruslabs/openlogin-utils";

const parseToken = (token: any) => {
try {
const token = token.split(".")[1]; // payload
return JSON.parse(safeatob(token));
} catch (err) {
console.error(err);
return null;
}
};

const { sub } = parseToken(idToken);

Initializing the Web3Auth SDK

The next step is to initialize the Web3Auth SDK. We now have all the parameters that are needed to call the connect method of the Web3Auth SDK.

const idToken = await signInWithAuth0();

const parsedToken = parseToken(idToken);
setUserInfo(parsedToken);

const verifierId = sub;
await web3auth.connect({
verifier: "w3a-auth0-demo", // e.g. `web3auth-sfa-verifier` replace with your verifier name, and it has to be on the same network passed in init().
verifierId, // e.g. `Yux1873xnibdui` or `name@email.com` replace with your verifier id(sub or email)'s value.
idToken,
});
info

Since we are directly using Single Factor Auth SDK to log in, the Web3Auth getUserInfo function won't work. We need to get the user details directly from the idToken.

Get the User Profile

import { safeatob } from "@toruslabs/openlogin-utils";

const parseToken = (token: any) => {
try {
const token = token.split(".")[1]; // payload
return JSON.parse(safeatob(token));
} catch (err) {
console.error(err);
return null;
}
};

const userProfile = parseToken(idToken);

Logout

Logging out your user is as simple as calling the logout function on the Web3Auth SDK.

await clearSession();
await web3authSfa.logout();

Interacting with the Blockchain

So if you have completed this far, it means that you have successfully authenticated your user. Now, you can use the provider returned by Web3Auth as web3auth.provider to interact with your blockchain. You can use the Provider SDKs to perform RPC Calls to your blockchain.

Web3Auth is chain agnostic, ie. depending on whatever blockchain or layer-2 you use, Web3Auth can easily support that. Web3Auth has native providers for EVM and Solana blockchains and for others, you can get the private key in the user scope and make RPC calls. For standardising the type of provider, Web3Auth Base provides a IProvider from which you can create your own provider.

  • Ethereum Provider gives you the capability of making RPC calls to the EVM compatible blockchains.
  • Solana Provider gives you the capability of making RPC calls to the Solana blockchain.
  • XRPL Provider gives you the capability of making RPC calls to the XRPL blockchain.
  • If you want to use any other chain except Solana or EVM chains, for ex: Starknet, you can specify the value of chainNamespace field as other in the Web3Auth SDK Constructor. Refer to: Using other blockchains

Get User Accounts

const getAccounts = async () => {
if (!provider) {
console.log("provider not initialized yet");
return;
}
const web3 = new Web3(provider as any);
const userAccounts = await web3.eth.getAccounts();
console.log(userAccounts);
};

View User Balance

const getBalance = async () => {
if (!provider) {
console.log("provider not initialized yet");
return;
}
const web3 = new Web3(provider as any);
const accounts = await web3.eth.getAccounts();
const balance = await web3.eth.getBalance(accounts[0]);
console.log(web3.utils.fromWei(balance));
};

Sign Message

const signMessage = async () => {
if (!provider) {
console.log("provider not initialized yet");
return;
}
const web3 = new Web3(provider as any);
// Get user's Ethereum public address
const account = (await web3.eth.getAccounts())[0];

// Message
const message = "Hello MPC, Bye Bye SeedPhrase";

const typedMessage = [
{
type: "string",
name: "message",
value: message,
},
];
const params = [JSON.stringify(typedMessage), account];
const method = "eth_signTypedData";

const signedMessage = await this.provider.request({
method,
params,
});
console.log(signedMessage);
};

Sign Transaction

const signTransaction = async () => {
if (!provider) {
console.log("provider not initialized yet");
return;
}
const web3 = new Web3(provider as any);
const accounts = await web3.eth.getAccounts();

const txRes = await web3.eth.signTransaction({
from: accounts[0],
to: accounts[0],
value: web3.utils.toWei("0.0001"),
chainId: 1, // change it to your specific chain id.
});
console.log(txRes.transactionHash);
};

Send Transaction

const sendTransaction = async () => {
if (!provider) {
console.log("provider not initialized yet");
return;
}
const web3 = new Web3(provider as any);
const accounts = await web3.eth.getAccounts();

const txRes = await web3.eth.sendTransaction({
from: accounts[0],
to: accounts[0],
value: web3.utils.toWei("0.0001"),
chainId: 1, // change it to your specific chain id.
});
console.log(txRes.transactionHash);
};

Example Code

The code for the example can be found here.

Troubleshooting

Please refer to the React Native Troubleshooting Guide if you face any hurdles.

Questions?

Ask us on Web3Auth Community Portal.