ra-lolo

ra-lolo is a set of providers compatible with react-admin, specifically designed to integrate with Amazon Cognito. It provides both an authentication provider and a data provider to enable seamless backend communication for applications using react-admin.

Features

• Authentication Provider: Integrates with Amazon Cognito to handle user authentication via oidc-client-ts. Supports login, logout, and identity verification.
• Data Provider: A flexible data provider to handle API requests, compatible with react-admin standards.
• React-Admin Integration: Built to work out-of-the-box with react-admin, providing standard data fetching capabilities (CRUD operations).

Installation

To install ra-lolo in your project, use npm or yarn:

npm install ra-lolo

or

yarn add ra-lolo

Usage

Setup LoloAdmin

const apiUrl = 'YOUR_BACKEND_URL';

const options = {
  itemsKey: 'records',
  headers: {
    'X-Custom-Header': 'value'
  }
};

const App = () => (
  <LoloAdmin
    authProvider={authProvider()}
    dataProvider={dataProvider(apiUrl, options)}
  />
);

export default App;

Configuration

• Authentication Flow: The authentication provider (LoloAuthProvider) uses the oidc-client-ts library to interact with Amazon Cognito, supporting login and logout flows.
• API Communication: The data provider (LoloDataProvider) uses RESTful API conventions to interact with backend endpoints, including pagination, filtering, sorting, and more.

Data Provider Options

The dataProvider function accepts an optional second argument, options, which allows you to customize the behavior of the data provider:

• itemsKey: Specifies the key used to extract the list of items from the server response. This can either be a string or a function that takes the resource name and returns the key.
• headers: Custom headers that should be added to every request. You can add any additional headers needed by your API.

Example:

const options = {
  itemsKey: 'records',
  headers: {
    'X-Custom-Header': 'value'
  }
};

const dataProviderInstance = dataProvider(apiUrl, options);

UserManager Configuration

The userManager configuration includes:

• authority: The URL of your Amazon Cognito identity provider.
• client_id: Your Cognito app client ID.
• redirect_uri: The URL for redirecting after authentication (must be registered in the Cognito app settings).

You can modify these in the userManager instance located in userManager.js.

Project Structure

ra-lolo/
  |- index.js
  |- authProvider.js
  |- dataProvider.js
  |- userManager.js

• index.js: Exports the main components of the package.
• authProvider.js: Contains LoloAuthProvider for handling authentication.
• dataProvider.js: Contains LoloDataProvider for API operations.
• userManager.js: Configures and exports the UserManager instance for handling authentication.

License

This project is licensed under the ISC License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to submit issues and pull requests to help improve this project.

Acknowledgments

This project leverages react-admin and oidc-client-ts. We appreciate the amazing work done by their respective communities.

Contact

If you have any questions, suggestions, or issues, feel free to open an issue on GitHub.

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We hope ra-lolo makes your journey with react-admin and Amazon Cognito easier and more efficient. Give it a try, and let us know how it works for you!