Sveltekit Auth0 Unofficial

An unofficial Auth0 library for Svelte-Kit

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Unofficial Auth0 client for Svelte-Kit

A thin wrapper around the auth0/nextjs-auth0 SDK, to adapt it to use with Svelte-Kit.

CAUTION: Svelte-Kit is still in beta. It's possible things might break if Svelte-Kit's API changes drastically in the future.

Installing

Run pnpm add sveltekit-auth0-unofficial (or npm add or yarn add). You'll also need to use the Node adapter for Svelte-Kit. Edit your svelte.config.js and make it look something like this:

import node from '@sveltejs/adapter-node';
import preprocess from 'svelte-preprocess';

/** @type {import('@sveltejs/kit').Config} */
const config = {
  // Consult https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte-preprocess
  // for more information about preprocessors
  preprocess: preprocess(),

  kit: {
    // hydrate the <div id="svelte"> element in src/app.html
    target: '#svelte',

    // Node adapter
    adapter: node(),
  },
};

export default config;

Usage

Once you've installed sveltekit-auth0-unofficial, start by setting up your Auth0 config. The recommended way to do this is to use environment variables; a complete list of environment variables available is at https://auth0.github.io/nextjs-auth0/modules/config.html. Alternately, you could keep your config secrets in a file that you don't check in to git. For example, you could add secrets.js to your .gitignore file and then write something like this:

// src/lib/auth0.ts
import { initAuth0 } from 'sveltekit-auth0-unofficial';
import { AUTH0_SECRET } from './secrets';

// In addition to environment variables, can also put Auth0 settings here
const myAuth0Config = {
  // Required settings (must specify either here or in environment variables)
  secret: AUTH0_SECRET,  // Should be a randomly-generated string of at *least* 32 characters.
  // clientID: 'my_auth0_client_id',
  // clientSecret: AUTH0_CLIENT_SECRET,
  // In this example, AUTH0_CLIENT_ID and AUTH0_CLIENT_SECRET are passed in via environment variables and not specified here
  baseURL: 'http://localhost:3000',
  issuerBaseURL: 'https://example.us.auth0.com',

  // Optional settings
  enableTelemetry: false,  // Don't send Auth0 the library version and Node version you're running
  routes: {
    postLogoutRedirect: '/goodbye',
    // Can also specify login and callback routes here; default is /api/auth/login and /api/auth/callback
  }
}

// Environment variables and custom config will be merged in initAuth0, and its result should be your module's default export
export default initAuth0(myAuth0Config);

Then either follow the quick-start instructions below, or the manual setup instructions further down.

Quick-start

Simply create a file named src/routes/api/auth/[auth0].ts and use the handleAuth() function to handle authentication for you:

// src/routes/api/auth/[auth0].ts
import auth0 from '$lib/auth0';

export function get(req) {
  return auth0.handleAuth(req);
}

Note that the name of the route parameter must be "auth0". The handleAuth() function will automatically handle routes named login, logout, callback, and me. If you want to use other names for those routes, follow the manual setup instructions instead.

You'll also want to put the following into src/hooks.ts:

import type { Handle } from '@sveltejs/kit';
import auth0 from '$lib/auth0';

export const handle: Handle = async ({ request, resolve }) => {
  const auth0Session = auth0.getSession(request);
  request.locals.auth0Session = auth0Session;
  request.locals.isAuthenticated = !!auth0Session?.user;
  request.locals.user = auth0Session?.user || {};

  const response = await resolve(request);
  // You could modify the response here, e.g. by adding custom headers
  return response;
};

export function getSession(request) {
  const { isAuthenticated, user } = request.locals;
  return { isAuthenticated, user }
}

Now you'll have access to the user object and isAuthenticated boolean in the export load({ session }) functions on your pages. Additionally, in your endpoint handlers you'll have access to request.locals.auth0Session which will contain auth0Session.idToken, auth0Session.accessToken, and so on. (See https://auth0.github.io/nextjs-auth0/classes/session_session.default.html for more).

You may want to read about the helper functions available now.

Manual setup

Instead of letting handleAuth define the routes for you, you can use individual functions for each route. For example, let's say you wanted your auth routes to be at the URLs /login, /logout, /api/callback, and /api/me.json. You'd first need to define those routes in your Auth0 config:

// src/lib/auth0.ts
import { initAuth0 } from '@auth0/nextjs-auth0';

const myAuth0Config = {
  routes: {
    // Must specify login and callback routes if they differ from the default
    login: '/login',
    callback: '/api/callback',
    // Don't need to specify logout and profile routes
  }
}

// Environment variables and custom config will be merged in initAuth0, and its result should be your module's default export
export default initAuth0(myAuth0Config);

And then you could write your routes as follows:

// src/routes/login.ts
import auth0 from '$lib/auth0';

export function get(req) {
  return auth0.handleLogin(req);
}

// src/routes/logout.ts
import auth0 from '$lib/auth0';

export function get(req) {
  return auth0.handleLogout(req);
}

// src/routes/api/callback.js
import auth0 from '$lib/auth0';

export function get(req) {
  return auth0.handleCallback(req);
}

// src/routes/api/me.json.js
import auth0 from '$lib/auth0';

export function get(req) {
  return auth0.handleProfile(req);
}

You'll also want to put the following into src/hooks.ts:

import type { Handle } from '@sveltejs/kit';
import auth0 from '$lib/auth0';

export const handle: Handle = async ({ request, resolve }) => {
  const auth0Session = auth0.getSession(request);
  request.locals.auth0Session = auth0Session;
  request.locals.isAuthenticated = !!auth0Session?.user;
  request.locals.user = auth0Session?.user || {};

  const response = await resolve(request);
  // You could modify the response here, e.g. by adding custom headers
  return response;
};

export function getSession(request) {
  const { isAuthenticated, user } = request.locals;
  return { isAuthenticated, user }
}

The Auth0 functions from nextjs-auth0 all take the same optional parameters documented in https://auth0.github.io/nextjs-auth0/. For example, to force a user profile refresh, call auth0.handleProfile(req, { refetch: true });. Or if you want to add custom data to the Auth0 session cookie, or remove data you don't want stored in the cookie, you can specify an afterCallback function in the callback handler, like so:

// src/routes/api/auth/callback.js
import auth0 from '$lib/auth0';

const afterCallback = (req, res, session, state) => {
  session.user.customProperty = 'foo';
  delete session.refreshToken;
  return session;
};

export function get(req) {
  return auth0.handleCallback(req, { afterCallback });
}

NOTE: The req and res objects your afterCallback function will receive are not real request and response objects. The https://auth0.github.io/nextjs-auth0/ documentation will list their type as NextApiRequest and NextApiResponse, but in fact they are minimal wrapper classes created by the sveltekit-auth0-unofficial library. These classes wrap around the request data that Svelte-Kit provides to your server-side route code, and simulate the NextApiRequest and NextApiResponse API just enough for nextjs-auth0 to do its work. Do not be surprised if some basic functionality is missing from the req and res objects that your afterCallback function receives. This applies to all the callbacks you might pass to a nextjs-auth0 function: the req and res objects your callback receives will have minimal functionality.

To return to a specific page after logging in, you can use a returnTo parameter.

// src/routes/login.js
import auth0 from '../auth0';

export function get(svelteReq) {
  const returnTo = svelteReq.query.get('returnTo');
  return auth0.handleLogin(svelteReq, { returnTo });
}

Helper functions

The nextjs-auth0 library defines two helper functions, withPageAuthRequired and withApiAuthRequired, for pages and API endpoints respectively. In sveltekit-auth0-unofficial, these functions have been converted to take arguments more appropriate for Svelte-Kit. The withPageAuthRequired function takes an optional parameters object, just as in nextjs-auth0, but where the nextjs-auth0 version of this function allows you to pass in your own getServerSideProps function, the Svelte-Kit version of withPageAuthRequired will have you pass in your own load function instead. The return value of withPageAuthRequired is suitable for exporting as your page's load function. E.g.,

<script context="module">
  export const load = auth0.withPageAuthRequired()
</script>

withPageAuthRequired will check whether the session contains a logged in user (detected by whether the session contains an isAuthenticated boolean that is true); if not, then it will redirect to your login page (as defined in your auth0 config) and return to the current page after the user has logged in. If the session contains a logged in user, then the value of session.user will be passed into props.user.

The optional returnTo parameter is not needed most of the time: withPageAuthRequired will calculate the return URL based on the current page's path and query parameters, which should be what you need most of the time. But if you need to return to a URL that's not exactly the one that the page was loaded by, then pass a returnTo parameter (as a string).

The optional load parameter (which replaces the getServerSideProps parameter from the nextjs-auth0 library), if specified, should be a standard Svelte-Kit load function, which can be either synchronous or async. If there is no logged-in user, your load function will not be called, and withPageAuthRequired will redirect to the login URL. So your load function can count on there being a valid user in session.user. If your load function returns anything, then the props will be populated with a user value corresponding to session.user; but if your load function returns nothing (because you intend to fall through to a different route), then withPageAuthRequired will not populate the props and will also return nothing.

Usage example with inner load function:

<script context="module">
  import { browser, dev } from '$app/env';
  import auth0 from '$lib/auth0';

  export const load = auth0.withPageAuthRequired({ load: async function load(params) {
    // Yes, this function doesn't need to be async, but I made it async for the example
    return { props: { innerLoadTest: "Yep, inner load got called" }};
    // No need to populate `props.user`, as `withPageAuthRequired` will take care of that part
  }});
</script>

<script lang="ts">
  export let innerLoadTest: string = "Nope, inner load was NOT called";
  export let user: any;
</script>

<svelte:head>
  <title>Profile</title>
</svelte:head>

<div class="content">
  <h1>Your profile</h1>

  <p>
    Hello, {user.given_name} {user.family_name}. <br/>
    Here's the profile picture you chose: <br/>
    <!-- svelte-ignore a11y-img-redundant-alt -->
    <img src={user.picture} alt='Profile image'>
  </p>

  <p>
    You can <a href="/api/auth/logout">log out</a> if you want.
  </p>

  <p>
    {innerLoadTest}
  </p>
</div>

The withApiAuthRequired function is simpler. It takes an endpoint handler (a get, post, etc. function) and wraps it in code that checks whether there's a valid login session. If there is already a valid session in request.locals (request.locals.isAuthenticated is true, and request.locals.user is a non-nullish value) then it will call your endpoint handler. If request.locals does not contain a valid session, it tries to construct one by calling the getSession function from nextjs-auth0, and if the Auth0 function returns a valid session, withApiAuthRequired will populate request.locals with auth0Session, user and isAuthenticated values. If there is no login session available, then withApiAuthRequired will return a 401 result containing the following JSON: { error: 'not_authenticated', description: 'The user does not have an active session or is not authenticated' }.

The second parameter to withApiAuthRequired, if passed, should be an object with one of two keys:

unauthHandler: a request handler that will be called instead of returning a 401 if there is no Auth0 login session (this could, for example, return a "basic" version of a resource, with the "full" version available only to logged-in users, or it could localize the JSON)
unauthJson: the JSON to return in the body of the 401, instead of the default JSON above.

If both unauthHandler and unauthJson are specified, unauthHandler will be used and unauthJson will be ignored.

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