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A Keycloak plugin for Vue with Typescript support

vue-keycloak plugin

Prerequisites

This package requires the following peer dependencies:

  • vue >= 2.0.0
  • 9.0.0 <= keycloak-js < 12.0.0

Introduction

This plugin uses the official Keycloak JS adapter

Please read the documentation: http://www.keycloak.org/docs/latest/securing_apps/index.html#_javascript_adapter

Excerpt from Keycloak JS doc:

By default to authenticate you need to call the login function. However, there are two options available to make the adapter automatically authenticate. You can pass login-required or check-sso to the init function. login-required will authenticate the client if the user is logged-in to Keycloak or display the login page if not. check-sso will only authenticate the client if the user is already logged-in, if the user is not logged-in the browser will be redirected back to the application and remain unauthenticated.

To enable login-required set onLoad to login-required and pass to the init method:

keycloak.init({ onLoad: 'login-required' })

Installation

Install using yarn

yarn add @caassis/vue-keycloak-ts

Install the Keycloak JS client as well:

yarn add keycloak-js

Install using npm

npm install @caassis/vue-keycloak-ts --save

Install the Keycloak JS client as well:

npm install keycloak-js --save

Note that the Keycloak JS client is a peer dependency to allow greater flexibility in choosing the client version. The Keycloak JS client documentation recommends using the same version of your Keycloak Server installation:

The best practice is to load the JS adapter directly from Keycloak Server as it will automatically be updated when you upgrade the server. If you copy the adapter to your web application instead, make sure you upgrade the adapter only after you have upgraded the server.

Usage

Vue.use(VueKeyCloak, [options])

Tell Vue to install the plugin, and optionally pass in a JavaScript object additional configuration.

import VueKeyCloak from '@caassis/vue-keycloak-ts'

Vue.use(VueKeyCloak)

// You can also pass in options. Check options reference below.
Vue.use(VueKeyCloak, options)

The plugin adds a $keycloak property to the global Vue instance. This is actually a new Vue instance and can be used as such. It shadows most of the keycloak instance’s properties and functions, with the exception of the callback events, which the plugin needs to control itself.

These properties/functions are exposed:

{
  ready: Boolean,              // Flag indicating whether Keycloak has initialised and is ready
  authenticated: Boolean,
  userName: String,            // Username from Keycloak. Collected from tokenParsed['preferred_username']
  fullName: String,            // Full name from Keycloak. Collected from tokenParsed['name']
  login: Function,             // [Keycloak] login function
  loginFn: Function,           // Alias for login
  logoutFn: Function,          // Keycloak logout function
  createLoginUrl: Function,    // Keycloak createLoginUrl function
  createLogoutUrl: Function,   // Keycloak createLogoutUrl function
  createRegisterUrl: Function, // Keycloak createRegisterUrl function
  register: Function,          // Keycloak register function
  accountManagement: Function, // Keycloak accountManagement function
  createAccountUrl: Function,  // Keycloak createAccountUrl function
  loadUserProfile: Function,   // Keycloak loadUserProfile function
  loadUserInfo: Function,      // Keycloak loadUserInfo function
  subject: String,             // The user id
  idToken: String,             // The base64 encoded ID token.
  idTokenParsed: Object,       // The parsed id token as a JavaScript object.
  realmAccess: Object,         // The realm roles associated with the token.
  resourceAccess: Object,      // The resource roles associated with the token.
  refreshToken: String,        // The base64 encoded refresh token that can be used to retrieve a new token.
  refreshTokenParsed: Object,  // The parsed refresh token as a JavaScript object.
  timeSkew: Number,            // The estimated time difference between the browser time and the Keycloak server in seconds. This value is just an estimation, but is accurate enough when determining if a token is expired or not.
  responseMode: String,        // Response mode passed in init (default value is fragment).
  responseType: String,        // Response type sent to Keycloak with login requests. This is determined based on the flow value used during initialization, but can be overridden by setting this value.
  hasRealmRole: Function,      // Keycloak hasRealmRole function
  hasResourceRole: Function,   // Keycloak hasResourceRole function
  token: String,               // The base64 encoded token that can be sent in the Authorization header in requests to services
  tokenParsed: String          // The parsed token as a JavaScript object
}

Options

You can pass in an object as options to the plugin. The following keys are valid options. See below for descpription.

Key Type Default
config String Object
init Object {onLoad: 'login-required'}
logout Object
onReady Function(keycloak)
onInitError Function(error)

config

IMPORTANT NOTE

Currently, the plugin accepts a config object like this:

{
  authRealm: String,
  authUrl: String,
  authClientId: String,
  logoutRedirectUri: String
}

This will be deprecated in the next major release.

Thereafter, the config object, either returned from an endpoint (string) or set directly (object), must be compatible with the Keycloak JS adapter constructor arguments.

The logoutRedirectUri must instead be defined in options.logout

See description below.

String

If this option is a string, the plugin will treat it as an URL and make an HTTP GET request to it.

If not present, the plugin will use /config.

The return value from the request is used as constructor parameters for the Keycloak adapter. As such, it should be an object with valid keys/values.

See Keycloak’s Javascript adapter reference

E.g.

{
  realm: String,
  url: String,
  clientId: String
}

These values will be used as constructor parameters to the official Keycloak adapter.

Object

If this option is an object, it will be passed on as constructor parameters for the Keycloak adapter. No HTTP GET request is done in this case.

init

This option is the parameter object for the Keycloak.init method.

logout

This option is the parameter object for the Keycloak.logout method.

onReady

This option is a callback function that is executed once Keycloak has initialised and is ready. You can be sure that the Vue instance has a property called $keycloak in this function. See above for possible values.

The callback function has one parameter, which is the keycloak object returned from the Keycloak adapter on instantiation.

One use case for this callback could be to instantiate and mount the Vue application. Then we are sure that the Keycloak authentication and the $keycloak property are properly finished and hydrated with data:

Vue.use(VueKeyCloak, {
  onReady: (keycloak) => {
    console.log(`I wonder what Keycloak returns: ${keycloak}`)
    /* eslint-disable no-new */
    new Vue({
      el: '#app',
      router,
      template: '<App/>',
      render: h => h(App)
    })
  }
})

In conjunction with the above, you might find it useful to intercept e.g. axios and set the token on each request:

function tokenInterceptor () {
  axios.interceptors.request.use(config => {
    config.headers.Authorization = `Bearer ${Vue.prototype.$keycloak.token}`
    return config
  }, error => {
    return Promise.reject(error)
  })
}

Vue.use(VueKeyCloak, {
  onReady: (keycloak) => {
    tokenInterceptor()
    /* eslint-disable no-new */
    new Vue({
      el: '#app',
      router,
      template: '<App/>',
      render: h => h(App)
    })
  }
})

onInitError

This option is a callback function that is executed if Keycloak initialisation has failed.

The callback function has one parameter, which is the error object returned by Keycloak. Note that this may be undefined even though an error has occurred, as Keycloak does not return an error object in every error case.

Examples

Supply a configuration object for the Keycloak constructor

Vue.use(VueKeyCloak, {
  config: {
    realm: 'MyRealm',
    url: 'https://my.keycloak.server/auth',
    clientId: 'MyClientId'
  },
  onReady: kc => {
    new Vue({
      render: h => h(App)
    }).$mount('#app')
  }
})

Supply init option (disable monitoring login state)

Vue.use(VueKeyCloak, {
  init: {
    onLoad: 'login-required',
    checkLoginIframe: false
  },
  onReady: kc => {
    new Vue({
      render: h => h(App)
    }).$mount('#app')
  }
})

Supply init option (use check-sso)

Remember; login-required is the default value for the onLoad property in the init object. So without passing an init object as argument, the default is { init: 'login-required' }

Vue.use(VueKeyCloak, {
  init: {
    onLoad: 'check-sso'
  },
  onReady: kc => {
    new Vue({
      render: h => h(App)
    }).$mount('#app')
  }
})

Specify a redirectUri

Vue.use(VueKeyCloak, {
  logout: {
    redirectUri: 'https://mydomain.lives.here.com'
  },
  onReady: kc => {
    new Vue({
      render: h => h(App)
    }).$mount('#app')
  }
})

Example application

View a complete example app, with router guards:

hello-keycloak

Develop and deploy

$ git clone https://github.com/caassis/vue-keycloak-ts.git
# Do some work, add and/or commit to git.
$ npm version patch

The command npm version patch will automatically run the build, push the branch upstream and publish the package to the NPM registry

Download Details:

Author: caassis

Source Code: https://github.com/caassis/vue-keycloak-ts

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A Keycloak plugin for Vue with Typescript support
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