Okta Vue SDK

The Okta Vue SDK is a wrapper around the Okta Auth SDK, which builds on top of Okta's OpenID Connect API.

This library currently supports:

• OAuth 2.0 Implicit Flow

Getting Started

• If you do not already have a Developer Edition Account, you can create one at https://developer.okta.com/signup/.
• If you don't have a Vue app, or are new to Vue, please start with the Vue CLI guide. It will walk you through the creation of a Vue app, creating routers, and other application development essentials.

Add an OpenID Connect Client in Okta

In Okta, applications are OpenID Connect clients that can use Okta Authorization servers to authenticate users. Your Okta Org already has a default authorization server, so you just need to create an OIDC client that will use it.

• Log into the Okta Developer Dashboard, click Applications > Add Application.
• Choose Single Page App (SPA) as the platform, then submit the form the default values, which should look like this:

Setting	Value
App Name	My SPA App
Base URIs	http://localhost:{port}
Login redirect URIs	http://localhost:{port}/implicit/callback
Grant Types Allowed	Implicit

After you have created the application there are two more values you will need to gather:

Setting	Where to Find
Client ID	In the applications list, or on the "General" tab of a specific application.
Org URL	On the home screen of the developer dashboard, in the upper right.

These values will be used in your Vue application to setup the OpenID Connect flow with Okta.

Installation

This library is available through npm. To install it, simply add it to your project:

npm install --save @okta/okta-vue

Configuration

You will need the values from the OIDC client that you created in the previous step to instantiate the middleware. You will also need to know your Okta Org URL, which you can see on the home page of the Okta Developer console.

In your application's vue-router configuration, import the @okta/okta-vue plugin and pass it your OpenID Connect client information:

// router/index.js

import Auth from '@okta/okta-vue'

Vue.use(Auth, {
  issuer: 'https://{yourOktaDomain}.com/oauth2/default',
  client_id: '{client_id}',
  redirect_uri: 'http://localhost:{port}/implicit/callback',
  scope: 'openid profile email'
})

Use the Callback Handler

In order to handle the redirect back from Okta, you need to capture the token values from the URL. You'll use /implicit/callback as the callback URL, and use the default Auth.handleCallback() component included.

// router/index.js

const router = new Router({
  ...
  mode: 'history',
  routes: [
    { path: '/implicit/callback', component: Auth.handleCallback() },
    ...
  ]
})

Add a Protected Route

Routes are protected by the authRedirectGuard, which verifies there is a valid accessToken or idToken stored. To ensure the user has been authenticated before accessing your route, add the requiresAuth metadata:

// router/index.js

{
  path: '/protected',
  component: Protected,
  meta: {
    requiresAuth: true
  }
}

Next, overload your router's beforeEach() executer to inject the global navigation guard:

// router/index.js

router.beforeEach(Vue.prototype.$auth.authRedirectGuard())

If a user does not have a valid session, they will be redirected to the Okta Login Page for authentication. Once authenticated, they will be redirected back to your application's protected page.

Show Login and Logout Buttons

In the relevant location in your application, you will want to provide Login and Logout buttons for the user. You can show/hide the correct button by using the $auth.isAuthenticated() method. For example:

// src/App.vue

<template>
  <div id="app">
    <router-link to="/" tag="button" id='home-button'> Home </router-link>
    <button v-if='authenticated' v-on:click='logout' id='logout-button'> Logout </button>
    <button v-else v-on:click='$auth.loginRedirect' id='login-button'> Login </button>
    <router-view/>
  </div>
</template>

<script>
export default {
  name: 'app',
  data: function () {
    return {
      authenticated: false
    }
  },
  created () {
    this.isAuthenticated()
  },
  watch: {
    // Everytime the route changes, check for auth status
    '$route': 'isAuthenticated'
  },
  methods: {
    async isAuthenticated () {
      this.authenticated = await this.$auth.isAuthenticated()
    },
    async logout () {
      await this.$auth.logout()
      await this.isAuthenticated()

      // Navigate back to home
      this.$router.push({ path: '/' })
    }
  }
}
</script>

Use the Access Token

When your users are authenticated, your Vue application has an access token that was issued by your Okta Authorization server. You can use this token to authenticate requests for resources on your server or API. As a hypothetical example, let's say you have an API that provides messages for a user. You could create a MessageList component that gets the access token and uses it to make an authenticated request to your server.

Here is what the Vue component could look like for this hypothentical example using axios:

// src/components/MessageList.vue

<template>
  <ul v-if="posts && posts.length">
    <li v-for="post in posts" :key='post.title'>
      <p><strong>{{post.title}}</strong></p>
      <p>{{post.body}}</p>
    </li>
  </ul>
</template>

<script>
import axios from 'axios'

export default {
  data () {
    return {
      posts: []
    }
  },
  async created () {
    axios.defaults.headers.common['Authorization'] = `Bearer ${await this.$auth.getAccessToken()}`
    try {
      const response = await axios.get(`http://localhost:{serverPort}/api/messages`)
      this.posts = response.data
    } catch (e) {
      console.error(`Errors! ${e}`)
    }
  }
}
</script>

Using a custom login-page

The okta-vue SDK supports the session token redirect flow for custom login pages. For more information, see the basic Okta Sign-in Widget functionality.

To handle the session-token redirect flow, you can create your own navigation guard using the requiresAuth meta param:

// router/index.js

router.beforeEach((from, to, next) {
  if (from.matched.some(record => record.meta.requiresAuth) && !(await Vue.prototype.$auth.isAuthenticated())) {
    // Navigate to custom login page
    next({ path: '/login' })
  } else {
    next()
  }
})

Reference

$auth

$auth is the top-most component of okta-vue. This is where most of the configuration is provided.

Configuration Options

• issuer (required): The OpenID Connect issuer
• client_id (required): The OpenID Connect client_id
• redirect_uri (required): Where the callback is hosted
• scope (optional): Reserved or custom claims to be returned in the tokens

$auth.loginRedirect

Performs a full page redirect to Okta based on the initial configuration. If you have an Okta sessionToken, you can bypass the full-page redirect by passing in this token. This is recommended when using the Okta Sign-In Widget. Simply pass in a sessionToken into the loginRedirect method follows:

this.$auth.loginRedirect({
  sessionToken: /* sessionToken */
})

Note: For information on obtaining a sessionToken using the Okta Sign-In Widget, please see the renderEl() example.

$auth.isAuthenticated

Returns true if there is a valid access token or ID token.

$auth.getAccessToken

Returns the access token from storage (if it exists).

$auth.getIdToken

Returns the ID token from storage (if it exists).

$auth.getUser

Returns the result of the OpenID Connect /userinfo endpoint if an access token exists.

$auth.handleAuthentication

Parses the tokens returned as hash fragments in the OAuth 2.0 Redirect URI.

Development

1. Clone the repo:
   • git clone [email protected]:okta/okta-oidc-js.git
2. Navigate into the okta-vue package:
   • cd packages/okta-vue
3. Install dependencies:
   • Navigate into the sample and install all vue dependencies
   • cd test/e2e/harness && npm install
4. Make your changes to okta-vue/src/
5. Update environment variables
   • Set the ISSUER and CLIENT_ID variables in the test/e2e/harness/config/dev.env.js file.
   • Manually set the USERNAME and PASSWORD environment variables via the command line. For example: export USERNAME={username}

Commands

Command	Description
npm start	Start the sample app using the SDK
npm test	Run integration tests
npm run lint	Run eslint linting tests