Authentication is one of the most time-consuming things to do when you have to deal with web projects. This projects is a ReactJS authentication using JWT (json web token) with REST calls to a server.

There's a backend folder inside the project with PHP pages (Apache server) for login.

The token is saved locally using local storage.

• Axios

• ReactJS with create-react-app
• Typescript
• JWT - Token
• PHP backend
• REST
• Axios

In order to use this project get the component's folder (components/Auth) and the helper's folder. In components, the component Auth has two main functions:

• serverLoginUser: to send a post request to login
• getAuth: get the current status of the user.

In the example inside this project you can test one form login but you can pretty much use the form validator you like.

When the user loggin successfully, the component save a json inside the local storage.

{
  "auth": {
    "token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJiaHhzaXRlcyIsImVtYWlsIjoiZm9vQG1haWwuY29tIn0.Sk0VtWo_UNSaW-TfGjvMGpiOwxx4cz9SEDkjx70MZvE",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "timestamp": "2020-09-02 21:14:13"
  }
}

Even though is not the main purpose, inside this project you will find a backend folder with PHP files.

You can put this folder inside your localhost and change the endpoint inside the components folder. The default value for this is pointing to some BHX Sites path with the same file but you can do this locally or even try use NodeJS instead of PHP (Apache).

PHP - Apache: In order to make the authorization call using apache, provide the htaccess configuration in the header:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    SetEnvIf Authorization .+ HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$0
</IfModule>

For testing purposes you will need to put [email protected] as e-mail and 123 as password.

Inside the PHP (login.php) page you will find the a simple checker to check if the login is correct.

// fake database return
$DATABASE_PASSWORD = md5('123');
$DATABASE_EMAIL = '[email protected]';

In order to use JWT you have to define a key (string). Set this inside the PHP page (auth.php)

// JWT config
$JWTServerkey = '123123';