solana-react-auth

Solana React Auth Provider

A React context provider that allows users to authenticate using their Solana wallet. It uses browser local storage to store the authentication data. which includes the signature, public key, and the timestamp of the signature in seconds. It verifies the signature using the public key and the signature itself and also checks the timestamp to ensure that the signature is not expired.

Installation

bun

bun add solana-react-auth

yarn

yarn add solana-react-auth

npm

npm install solana-react-auth

Exposed Objects

SolanaAuthProvider

A React component that wraps the application and provides the authentication context. It takes the following props:

• wallet: WalletContext from useWallet hook
• message: A string or object that represents the message to be signed by the user.
• authTimeout: A number that represents the timeout of the authentication in seconds.

Note: This provider should be a child of WalletProvider from @solana/wallet-adapter-react.

<SolanaAuthProvider
  wallet={wallet}
  message={"Sign in to continue"}
  authTimeout={60}
>
  <App />
</SolanaAuthProvider>

useSolanaAuth

A React hook that exposes the following methods:

• checkIsAuthenticated: Returns a boolean value indicating if the user is authenticated.
• authenticate: A function that tries to authenticate the user.
• getAuthData: Returns the authentication data, including the signature, public key, and the timestamp of the signature in seconds.

const { checkIsAuthenticated, authenticate, getAuthData } = useSolanaAuth();

AuthStorage

An object that represents the authentication data stored in the local storage of the browser.

type AuthStorage = {
  signature: string;
  pubkey: string;
  signedAt: number;
};