React Twitter Authentication Component

A React Twitter oAUth Sign-in / Log-in Component for React

Installation

npm install react-twitter-auth

Usage

<TwitterLogin
  loginUrl="http://localhost:4000/api/v1/auth/twitter"
  onFailure={this.onFailed}
  onSuccess={this.onSuccess}
  requestTokenUrl="http://localhost:4000/api/v1/auth/twitter/reverse"
/>

Custom content that overrides default content:

<TwitterLogin
  loginUrl="http://localhost:4000/api/v1/auth/twitter"
  onFailure={this.onFailed}
  onSuccess={this.onSuccess}
  requestTokenUrl="http://localhost:4000/api/v1/auth/twitter/reverse"
  showIcon={true}
  customHeaders={customHeader}
>
  <b>Custom</b> Twitter <i>Login</i> content
</TwitterLogin>

Options

params	value	default value	description
tag	string	button	tag that should be used to create element that will be used as loging element
text	string	Sign in with Twitter	text that will be shown in component
loginUrl	string		URL that will be used to finish 3rd step of authentication process
requestTokenUrl	string		URL that will be used to get request token
onFailure	function		function that will be called if user cannot be authenticated
onSuccess	function		function that will be called if user is successfully authenticated
disabled	boolean	false	disable component
style	object		style object
className	string		class name for component
dialogWidth	number	600	dialog width
dialogHeight	number	400	dialog height
showIcon	bool	true	should default icon be visible
credentials	string	same-origin	indicates whether the user agent should send cookies from the other domain in the case of cross-origin requests. Possible values: omit, same-origin, include
customHeaders	object	{}	custom headers should be object with fields that needs to be sent to user server. Field name will be used as header key and field value as header value. Because of bug in fetch implementation all keys will be lowercase.
children	node		this props can be used in order to override default component content
forceLogin	bool	false	force user to authenticate with Twitter username and password
screenName	string		prefills the username input box of the OAuth login screen with the given value

Examples

Full example can be found in example folder.

You can find tutorial that explains in details how to implement Twitter authentication with RESTful backend here.

Workflow

The detailed explanation of the whole process can be found in Twitter documentation. In picture below you can find out all the steps that are needed.

License

react-twitter-auth is released under MIT License.