Authentication is a way for applications to confirm user identity before granting permission or entry to a website. In this way, a user must prove their identity through a username, password, email, and so on. What is AWS Amplify? AWS Amplify is a tool that lets frontend web and mobile developers build and deploy full-stack applications on AWS. Using AWS Amplify, it integrates with various libraries and frameworks. In this article, we will add the auth feature of Amplify to an already existing frontend web crypto app, allowing users to sign in to see the latest crypto prices after signing up. One more feature of the app is the sign-out feature. Prerequisites The following setup is required to complete this post: AWS account. Sign up for a free account installed on your local machine Node >= 14.0.0 and npm >= 5.6 A code editor (VS Code recommended) Install the AWS Amplify CLI. Run this command, npm i -g @aws-amplify/cli Knowledge of JavaScript and React Use this to get the complete source code for this post. GitHub repo Check out the of the crypto application live demo Getting Started Since we will not be building the crypto web app, clone the starting main branch. Run this command: git clone --branch main git@github.com:Terieyenike/react-nextjs-crypto-tracker.git Once done, change the directory and run this command to install its dependencies: npm install To start the development server on to confirm the app is working, run: http://localhost:3000 npm run dev The app should look like this: Next, let’s set up Amplify for the project and create a named profile: Setting up Amplify In the root of the project’s directory, we need to initialize amplify in the project. Run this command which will create a new folder called : amplify amplify init Follow the prompts with these selected options: The following configuration will be applied:

Project information
| Name: nextjsamplifyauth
| Environment: dev
| Default editor: Visual Studio Code
| App type: javascript
| Javascript framework: react
| Source Directory Path: src
| Distribution Directory Path: build
| Build Command: npm run-script build
| Start Command: npm run-script start ? Select the authentication method you want to use: AWS profile ? Please choose the profile you want to use Note: It is recommended to run this command from the root of your app directory ? Enter a name for the project nextjsamplifyauth ? Initialize the project with the above configuration? Yes Using default provider  awscloudformation For more information on AWS Profiles, see : https: //docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-profiles.html With the guidelines followed above, the success message should look like this: ✔ Help improve Amplify CLI by sharing non sensitive configurations on failures (y/N) · yes

✔ Initialized provider successfully.
✅ Initialized your environment successfully.

Your project has been successfully initialized and connected to the cloud! CREATE_COMPLETE amplify-nextjsamplifyauth-dev- 104950 AWS::CloudFormation::Stack Tue Aug 30 2022 10 : 50 : 23 GMT+ 0100 (West Africa Standard Time) ✔ Successfully created initial AWS cloud resources for deployments. In the installed amplify directory, the file structure should be like this: Let’s now add the authentication service to our Next application. Creating the Authentication Service Still, in the project’s root folder, run the following command: amplify add auth This command adds authentication to the backend configuration with these prompt options: The current configured provider is Amazon Cognito. lt configuration Do you want to configure advanced settings? No, I am done.
✅ Successfully added auth resource nextjsamplifyauthd76ad210 locally Using service: Cognito, provided by: awscloudformation Do you want to use the default authentication and security configuration? Defau Warning : you will not be able to edit these selections. How do you want users to be able to sign in ? Username The installation successfully adds the to the amplify backend folder. Now, let’s deploy the service to amplify cloud with the push command: auth/nextjsamplifyauthd76ad210 amplify push The deployed message logs should look like this: UPDATE_COMPLETE                     amplify-nextjsamplifyauth-dev- 104950 AWS::CloudFormation::Stack Tue Aug 30 2022 11 : 07 : 18 GMT+ 0100 (West Africa Standard Time) ✔ All resources are updated in the cloud To check the deployed auth service in the AWS Amplify Studio, it should look something like this: The deployment to amplify studio is complete, and it works. Let’s start wiring up our app with AWS auth in Next. Setting up Auth in Next To integrate the auth service to the Next application, we must install the Amplify UI components necessary for styling the demo app and the dependency for configuration. aws-amplify Run this command: npm install @aws-amplify/ui-react aws-amplify Update the entry point of the app, , with the following code: index.js useAuthenticator,
    withAuthenticator,
    Button,
    Flex,
    Heading Amplify.configure(awsExports) );
} // pages/index.js import {useState} from 'react' ; // other imports import Layout from '../sections/Layout' ; // add this import { } from '@aws-amplify/ui-react' ; import {Amplify} from 'aws-amplify' ; import '@aws-amplify/ui-react/styles.css' ; import awsExports from "../src/aws-exports" ; const Home = ( {filteredCoins} ) => { const {user, signOut} = useAuthenticator( ( context ) => [context.user]); // allCoins method with callback function to include search of the coins // handleChange method return ( < div > < Layout > < Flex direction = { " row "} justifyContent = "center" alignItems = "center" > < Heading level = {3} color = "neutral[100]" fontWeight = "bold" > Welcome, {user.username}! </ Heading > < Button fontWeight = 'normal' onClick = {signOut} size = 'small' > Sign Out </ Button > </ Flex > // filtered coin list </ Layout > </ div > export default withAuthenticator(Home) // add this // data fetching with getServerSideProps In the code, the following occurs: Import the component that adds complete authentication flows Authenticator The , the import package, is a JavaScript library for building cloud-enabled applications. aws-amplify The UI React package is a customized theme like every other CSS utility, meant for styling a project. Next, we use the imported file and configure it with Amplify. aws-exports The composable can access the current user signed in during sign-up. useAuthenticator The rest of the file handles the components like Flex, Heading, and Button that take care of how the app appears on the page with its CSS properties. In the component, the user object is assigned to the username. <Heading> On the component, we use the onClick event and assign the field's value from the object <Button> context.user Finally, to get the app working with authentication, wrap the app with the higher-order component (HOC), withAuthenticator() That’s it. The app should work as expected, as shown: The complete source code for implementing authentication in Next with AWS Amplify is in this . GitHub feature branch auth repo Conclusion In this article, we learned how to configure and set up a working authentication in our Next application without needing a lot of complex setups and writing logic backend code.

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