Interacting with Auth0 from the Frontend
Explore how to implement secure user authentication in a React frontend by integrating Auth0. Learn to set up sign-in and sign-out routes, manage authentication with React context, and handle redirections using the Auth0 JavaScript SDK.
We will fully implement the sign-in and sign-out processes from our React frontend. We are going to interact with Auth0 as a part of these processes.
We will start by installing the Auth0 JavaScript client before creating React Router routes and logic to handle the Auth0 sign-in and sign-out processes.
We will also learn about React context. We will use this React feature to centralize information and functions for authentication that components can easily access.
Installing the Auth0 JavaScript client
There is a standard Auth0 JavaScript library for single-page applications that we can leverage that will interact nicely with Auth0. The npm package for the library is called @auth0/auth0-spa-js. Let's install this ...