🔏 Customize key cloak's pages as if they were part of your App 🔏
Ultimately this build tool Generates a Keycloak theme
# Motivations
The problem:
Without keycloakify:
When we redirected to Keycloak the user suffers from a harsh context switch.
Keycloak does offer a way to customize theses pages but it requires a lot of raw HTML/CSS hacking
to reproduce the look and feel of a specific app. Not mentioning the maintenance cost of such an endeavour.
Wouldn't it be great if we could just design the login and register pages as if they where part of our app?
Here is `yarn add keycloakify` for you 🍸
With keycloakify:
**TL;DR**: [Here](https://github.com/garronej/keycloakify-demo-app) is a Hello World React project with Keycloakify set up.
- [Motivations](#motivations)
- [How to use](#how-to-use)
- [Setting up the build tool](#setting-up-the-build-tool)
- [Specify from where the resources should be downloaded.](#specify-from-where-the-resources-should-be-downloaded)
- [Developing your login and register pages in your React app](#developing-your-login-and-register-pages-in-your-react-app)
- [Just changing the look](#just-changing-the-look)
- [Changing the look **and** feel](#changing-the-look-and-feel)
- [Hot reload](#hot-reload)
- [GitHub Actions](#github-actions)
- [Requirements](#requirements)
- [Limitations](#limitations)
- [`process.env.PUBLIC_URL` not supported.](#processenvpublic_url-not-supported)
- [`@font-face` importing fonts from the `src/` dir](#font-face-importing-fonts-from-thesrc-dir)
- [Example of setup that **won't** work](#example-of-setup-that-wont-work)
- [Implement context persistence (optional)](#implement-context-persistence-optional)
- [API Reference](#api-reference)
- [The build tool](#the-build-tool)
# How to use
## Setting up the build tool
[`package.json`](https://github.com/garronej/keycloakify-demo-app/blob/main/package.json)
```json
"homepage": "https://URL.OF/YOUR-APP"
"dependencies": {
"keycloakify": "^0.0.10"
},
"scripts": {
"keycloak": "yarn build && build-keycloak-theme",
},
```
It is mandatory that you specify the url where your app will be available
using the `homepage` field.
Once you've edited your `package.json` you can install your new
dependency with `yarn install` and build the keycloak theme with
`yarn keycloak`.
Once the build is complete instructions about how to load
the theme into Keycloak are printed in the console.
### Specify from where the resources should be downloaded.
*TL;DR*: Building the theme with the `--external-assets` option enables the login
page to load faster for first time users but it also implies that:
- If the app is down, your Keycloak login and register pages are down as well.
- Each time the app is updated, the theme must be updated as well.
- CORS must be enabled for fonts.
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When you run `npx build-keycloak-theme` without arguments, Keycloakify will build
a standalone version of the Keycloak theme. That is to say even if your app, the
one hosted at the url specified as `homepage`, is down the Keycloak theme will still work.
It also mean that you won't have to update your theme on your Keycloak server each time
your app is updated.
In this mode, the default, every asset are served by the keycloak server.
The drawback of this approach is that when users access the login page for the first time
they have to download the whole app again.
You probably have [long-term asset caching](https://create-react-app.dev/docs/production-build/#static-file-caching)
enabled in the server that host your app ([example](https://github.com/garronej/keycloakify-demo-app/blob/224c43383548635a463fa68e8909c147ac189f0e/nginx.conf#L14))
so it can be interesting to only serve the html from Keycloak server and everything
else, your JS bundles, your CSS ect from the server that host your app.
To enable this behavior you car run:
```bash
npx build-keycloak-theme --external-assets
```
(instead of `npx build-keycloak-theme`)
This is something you probably want to do in your CI pipeline. [Example](https://github.com/garronej/keycloakify-demo-app/blob/224c43383548635a463fa68e8909c147ac189f0e/.github/workflows/ci.yaml#L112)
Also note that there is [a same-origin policy exception for fonts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-origin_policy#cite_note-3) so you must enabled
CORS for fonts on the server hosting your app. Concretely this mean that your server should add a `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *` response header to
GET request on *.woff2?. [Example with Nginx](https://github.com/garronej/keycloakify-demo-app/blob/224c43383548635a463fa68e8909c147ac189f0e/nginx.conf#L18-L20)
## Developing your login and register pages in your React app
### Just changing the look
The first approach is to only arr/replace the default class names by your
own.
```tsx
import { App } from ".//App";
import {
KcApp,
defaultKcProps,
kcContext
} from "keycloakify";
import { css } from "tss-react";
const myClassName = css({ "color": "red" });
reactDom.render(
// Unless the app is currently being served by Keycloak
// kcContext is undefined.
kcContext !== undefined ?
:
, // Your actual app
document.getElementById("root")
);
```
result:
### Changing the look **and** feel
If you want to really re-implement the pages the best approach is to
create you own version of the [``](https://github.com/garronej/keycloakify/blob/develop/src/lib/components/KcApp.tsx).
Copy/past some of [the components](https://github.com/garronej/keycloakify/tree/develop/src/lib/components) provided by this module and start hacking around.
### Hot reload
By default, in order to see your changes you will have to wait for
`yarn build` to complete which can takes sevrall minute.
If you want to test your login screens outside of Keycloak, in [storybook](https://storybook.js.org/)
for example you can use `kcContextMocks`.
```tsx
import {
KcApp,
defaultKcProps,
kcContextMocks
} from "keycloakify";
reactDom.render(
kcContext !== undefined ?
document.getElementById("root")
);
```
then `yarn start` ...
Checkout [this concrete example](https://github.com/garronej/keycloakify-demo-app/blob/main/src/index.tsx)
*NOTE: keycloak-react-theming was renamed keycloakify since this video was recorded*
[](https://youtu.be/xTz0Rj7i2v8)
# GitHub Actions
[Here is a demo repo](https://github.com/garronej/keycloakify-demo-app) to show how to automate
the building and publishing of the theme (the .jar file).
# Requirements
Tested with the following Keycloak versions:
- [11.0.3](https://hub.docker.com/layers/jboss/keycloak/11.0.3/images/sha256-4438f1e51c1369371cb807dffa526e1208086b3ebb9cab009830a178de949782?context=explore)
- [12.0.4](https://hub.docker.com/layers/jboss/keycloak/12.0.4/images/sha256-67e0c88e69bd0c7aef972c40bdeb558a974013a28b3668ca790ed63a04d70584?context=explore)
This tool will be maintained to stay compatible with Keycloak v11 and up, however, the default pages you will get
(before you customize it) will always be the ones of the Keycloak v11.
This tools assumes you are bundling your app with Webpack (tested with 4.44.2) .
It assumes there is a `build/` directory at the root of your react project directory containing a `index.html` file
and a `build/static/` directory generated by webpack.
**All this is defaults with [`create-react-app`](https://create-react-app.dev)** (tested with 4.0.3=)
- For building the theme: `mvn` (Maven) must be installed
- For development (testing the theme in a local container ): `rm`, `mkdir`, `wget`, `unzip` are assumed to be available
and `docker` up and running.
NOTE: This build tool has only be tested on MacOS.
# Limitations
## `process.env.PUBLIC_URL` not supported.
You won't be able to [import things from your public directory in your JavaScript code](https://create-react-app.dev/docs/using-the-public-folder/#adding-assets-outside-of-the-module-system). (This isn't recommended anyway).
## `@font-face` importing fonts from the `src/` dir
**If you are building the theme with `--external-assets` this limitation doesn't apply.**
### Example of setup that **won't** work
- We have a `fonts/` directory in `src/`
- We import the font like this [`src: url("/fonts/my-font.woff2") format("woff2");`(https://github.com/garronej/keycloakify-demo-app/blob/07d54a3012ef354ee12b1374c6f7ad1cb125d56b/src/fonts.scss#L4) in a `.scss` a file.
### Workarounds
If it is possible, use Google Fonts or any other font provider.
If you want to host your font recommended approach is to move your fonts into the `public`
directory and to place your `@font-face` statements in the `public/index.html`.
Example [here]().
You can also [use your explicit url](https://github.com/garronej/keycloakify-demo-app/blob/2de8a9eb6f5de9c94f9cd3991faad0377e63268c/src/fonts.scss#L16) but don't forget [`Access-Control-Allow-Origin`](https://github.com/garronej/keycloakify-demo-app/blob/2de8a9eb6f5de9c94f9cd3991faad0377e63268c/nginx.conf#L17-L19).
# Implement context persistence (optional)
If, before logging in, a user has selected a specific language
you don't want it to be reset to default when the user gets redirected to
the login or register pages.
Same goes for the dark mode, you don't want, if the user had it enabled
to show the login page with light themes.
The problem is that you are probably using `localStorage` to persist theses values across
reload but, as the Keycloak pages are not served on the same domain that the rest of your
app you won't be able to carry over states using `localStorage`.
The only reliable solution is to inject parameters into the URL before
redirecting to Keycloak. We integrate with
[`keycloak-js`](https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak-documentation/blob/master/securing_apps/topics/oidc/javascript-adapter.adoc),
by providing you a way to tell `keycloak-js` that you would like to inject
some search parameters before redirecting.
The method also works with [`@react-keycloak/web`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@react-keycloak/web) (use the `initOptions`).
You can implement your own mechanism to pass the states in the URL and
restore it on the other side but we recommend using `powerhooks/useGlobalState`
from the library [`powerhooks`](https://www.powerhooks.dev) that provide an elegant
way to handle states such as `isDarkModeEnabled` or `selectedLanguage`.
Let's modify [the example](https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak-documentation/blob/master/securing_apps/topics/oidc/javascript-adapter.adoc) from the official `keycloak-js` documentation to
enables the states of `useGlobalStates` to be injected in the URL before redirecting.
Note that the states are automatically restored on the other side by `powerhooks`
```typescript
import keycloak_js from "keycloak-js";
import { injectGlobalStatesInSearchParams } from "powerhooks/useGlobalState";
import { createKeycloakAdapter } from "keycloakify";
//...
const keycloakInstance = keycloak_js({
"url": "http://keycloak-server/auth",
"realm": "myrealm",
"clientId": "myapp"
});
keycloakInstance.init({
"onLoad": 'check-sso',
"silentCheckSsoRedirectUri": window.location.origin + "/silent-check-sso.html",
"adapter": createKeycloakAdapter({
"transformUrlBeforeRedirect": injectGlobalStatesInSearchParams,
keycloakInstance
})
});
//...
```
If you really want to go the extra miles and avoid having the white
flash of the blank html before the js bundle have been evaluated
[here is a snippet](https://github.com/InseeFrLab/onyxia-ui/blob/a77eb502870cfe6878edd0d956c646d28746d053/public/index.html#L5-L54) that you can place in your `public/index.html` if you are using `powerhooks/useGlobalState`.
# API Reference
## The build tool
Part of the lib that runs with node, at build time.
- `npx build-keycloak-theme [--external-assets]`: Builds the theme, the CWD is assumed to be the root of your react project.
- `npx download-sample-keycloak-themes`: Downloads the keycloak default themes (for development purposes)