How to Authenticate Users with Web3Auth

What is Web3Auth?

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Visit Web3Auth docs to get more information.

Web3Auth is a pluggable auth infrastructure for Web3 wallets and applications. It streamlines the onboarding of mainstream and crypto-native users in under a minute by providing experiences they're most comfortable with. With support for all social logins, web and mobile-native platforms, wallets, and other key management methods, Web3Auth results in a standard cryptographic key provider specific to the user and application.

Before Starting

You can start this tutorial if you already have a NextJS dapp with MetaMask sign-in functionality.

Installing the Web3Auth Wagmi Connector

Install the @web3auth/web3auth-wagmi-connector dependency:

npm

npm install @web3auth/web3auth-wagmi-connector@1.0.0

Yarn

yarn add @web3auth/web3auth-wagmi-connector@1.0.0

pnpm

pnpm add @web3auth/web3auth-wagmi-connector@1.0.0

Configuring the Web3Auth Wagmi Connector

1. Open the pages/signin.jsx file and add Web3AuthConnector as a connector to the useConnect() hook:

import { Web3AuthConnector } from "@web3auth/web3auth-wagmi-connector";
import { signIn } from "next-auth/react";
import { useAccount, useConnect, useSignMessage, useDisconnect } from "wagmi";
import { useRouter } from "next/router";
import { useAuthRequestChallengeEvm } from "@moralisweb3/next";

function SignIn() {
  const { connectAsync } = useConnect({
    connector: new Web3AuthConnector({
      chains: ["0x1"],
      options: {
        clientId: "YOUR_CLIENT_ID", // Get your own client id from https://dashboard.web3auth.io
      },
    }),
  });
  const { disconnectAsync } = useDisconnect();
  const { isConnected } = useAccount();
  const { signMessageAsync } = useSignMessage();
  const { push } = useRouter();
  const { requestChallengeAsync } = useAuthRequestChallengeEvm()

  const handleAuth = async () => {
    if (isConnected) {
      await disconnectAsync();
    }

    const { account } = await connectAsync();

    const { message } = await requestChallengeAsync({
      address: account,
      chainId: "0x1",
    });

    const signature = await signMessageAsync({ message });

    // redirect user after success authentication to '/user' page
    const { url } = await signIn("moralis-auth", {
      message,
      signature,
      redirect: false,
      callbackUrl: "/user",
    });
    /**
     * instead of using signIn(..., redirect: "/user")
     * we get the url from callback and push it to the router to avoid page refreshing
     */
    push(url);
  };

  return (
    <div>
      <h3>Web3 Authentication</h3>
      <button onClick={() => handleAuth()}>Authenticate via Web3Auth</button>
    </div>
  );
}

export default SignIn;

Testing the Web3Auth Connector

Visit http://localhost:3000/signin to test authentication.

1. Click on Authenticate via Web3Auth:

2. Select the preferred sign-in method:

3. After successful authentication, you will be redirected to the /user page:

4. Visit http://localhost:3000/user to test the user session's functionality:

• When a user is authenticated, we show the user's info on the page.
• When a user is not authenticated, we redirect to the /signin page.
• When a user is authenticated, we show the user's info on the page, even refreshing after the page. (Explanation: After Web3 wallet authentication, the next-auth library creates a session cookie with an encrypted JWT [JWE] stored inside. It contains session info [such as an address and signed message] in the user's browser.)