SwiftUI authentication with MongoDB Realm

Set authentication

• Log into your MongoDB account and choose Realm.

Read more initial setup and workaround for MongoDB Realm and SwiftUI here.

• Choose your project and then select Authentication from the left side bar.
• Select Authentication Providers and enable both Allow users to log in anonymously and Email/Password. You can also see that there are other various authentication providers available, such as Google and Facebook, for developers to seamlessly integrate.

Now that you have enabled Authentication, let’s create some UI and an actual login page.

Integration

• Create a new Xcode project and use the Swift Package Manager to add Realm-Cocoa.

For instructions on how to do this step, follow the Set up Swift App header from this article.

• To begin, retrieve the App ID from your Realm Database, and set it as:

let app = App(id: "ENTER_APP_ID")

• We will start by creating a signup function.

func RealmRegister(){
    let client = app.emailPasswordAuth
    let email = "test@test.com"
    let password = "123456"
    client.registerUser(email: email, password: password) { (error) in
        guard error == nil else {
            print("Failed to register: \(error!.localizedDescription)")
            e = "Failed to register: \(error!.localizedDescription)"
            return
        }
        print("Successfully registered user.")
    }

}

Replace the email and password attribute with your desired email-id and password.

• Call the function, and you’ll see the created user within your MongoDB Realm Database users list. However, you will not find the user details within the Confirmed tab; rather, it would available in the Pending tab. That’s because after the account creation, the user has not logged in. Hence, the user would move to the Confirmed user tab only after the login.

• Now, let’s create a login function to log our created user in.

func RealmAuth(){
    app.login(credentials: Credentials.emailPassword(email: "test@test.com", password: "123456")) { (result) in
        switch result {
        case .failure(let error):
            print("Login failed: \(error.localizedDescription)")
        case .success(let user):
            print("Successfully logged in as user \(user)")
        }
    }
}

• Realm allows anonymous logins for users who want to show a temporary presence in the app. Here’s how we can set this up:

func RealmAuthAnonymous(){
    let anonymousCredentials = Credentials.anonymous
    app.login(credentials: anonymousCredentials) { (result) in
        switch result {
        case .failure(let error):
            print("Login failed: \(error.localizedDescription)")
        case .success(let user):
            print("Successfully logged in as user \(user)")
        }
    }

}

Now, you can simply call these functions within any button action to create a seamless login functionality.