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ra-keycloak

An auth provider for react-admin which handles authentication via a Keycloak server.

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This repository contains:

  • The actual ra-keycloak package
  • A simple demo app you can run locally to try out ra-keycloak

Simple Demo

Prerequesites

This demo requires Docker and docker compose in order to start a local Keycloak server.

Initial setup

  1. Clone this project
  2. Run make install run to install the dependencies, start the local Keycloak Server and start the Demo App

We need to add some minimal configuration to our Keycloak server in order to use it. This need to be done from the Keycloak Admin Console.

  1. Browse to http://localhost:8080/auth/ (note: keycloak takes some time to start...)
  2. Go to Administration Console
  3. Login with the default credentials (admin / password)
  4. Create a new Realm named for instance Marmelab
  5. Create a new Realm Role named admin
  6. Create a new Realm Role named user
  7. Create a new User named [email protected]
  8. For [email protected], under Credentials, set a new password (disable the temporary password tick)
  9. For [email protected], under Role mapping, click Assign role, select Filter by realm roles and choose admin
  10. Create a new User named [email protected]
  11. For [email protected], under Credentials, set a new password (disable the temporary password tick)
  12. For [email protected], under Role mapping, click Assign role, select Filter by realm roles and choose user
  13. Create a new Client and choose as Client ID front-marmelab. Leave all the other options to default.
  14. For Client front-marmelab, under Settings, edit the Access settings to the following:
  1. Click Save. Your keycloak instance is fully configured.

Using the Simple Demo

Now that all is configured and running, you can browse to http://localhost:8081/ to access the React Admin App.

  • Signing in with [email protected] will only grant the user role permissions
  • Signing in with [email protected] will grant full admin role permissions, allowing for instance to see the 'Users' resource in the main menu

Feel free to play around with this demo, along with the Keycloak config, to understand better how it works!

License

This repository and the code it contains is licensed under the MIT License and sponsored by marmelab.