Quick Start Instructions

$ git clone https://github.com/magiclabs/example-chrome-extension.git
$ cd example-chrome-extension
$ mv .env.example .env // enter your Magic Publishable API key
$ yarn install
$ yarn build

Resources

View the example code here.

Try out the browser extension here.

Introduction

Maybe you want to allow users of your extension to have profiles, or maybe you want to charge for premuim features. This tutorial shows how you can integrate Magic passwordless authentication into a Chrome browser extension using React.

After clicking the browser extension icon and then the "login" button, the user will be directed to a full-page tab to complete the auth flow. After that, clicking the browser extension will show the user authenticated!

Note: The new tab is required because if we had the login form inside the browser extension popup, as soon as the user navigated away to check their email for the link, the popup page would close and the auth flow would break.

File Structure

Our application's file structure will look like this.

├── .env
├── build
├── README.md
├── package.json
├── public
│   ├── icon-purple.png
│   ├── index.html
│   └── manifest.json
├── src
│   ├── components
│   │   ├── App.js
│   │   ├── Loading.js
│   │   ├── Login.js
│   │   └── Profile.js
│   ├── index.js
│   ├── magic.js
│   └── styles.css
└── yarn.lock

The folder that we will be uploading to Chrome will be build, which after you run yarn build will look something like this.

├── build
│   ├── asset-manifest.json
│   ├── icon-purple.png
│   ├── index.html
│   ├── manifest.json
│   └── static
│       ├── css
│       │   ├── main.ee12e5fd.chunk.css
│       │   └── main.ee12e5fd.chunk.css.map
│       └── js
│           ├── 2.c16f79f9.chunk.js
│           ├── 2.c16f79f9.chunk.js.LICENSE.txt
│           ├── 2.c16f79f9.chunk.js.map
│           ├── main.bae666a1.chunk.js
│           ├── main.bae666a1.chunk.js.map
│           ├── runtime-main.33ea36a3.js
│           └── runtime-main.33ea36a3.js.map

Building the App

The Magic React app boilerplate will be taken from the Hello World (React) template using the npx make-magic command.

$ npx make-magic
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Running scaffold create-magic-app

✔ What is your project named? · example-chrome-extension
✔ Choose a template: · hello-world-react
✔ Enter your Magic publishable API key: · pk_test_...
✔ Choose an NPM client: yarn

Since there's no redirect back to the chrome extension, go ahead and delete

1. the redirectURI parameter given to loginWithMagicLink()
2. the /components/Callback.js component
3. the /callback route in App.js

Manifest.json

Every browser extension needs a manifest.json file, which tells Chrome important information about your extension, such as your icons, permissions (tab controls, storage access, etc), which scripts should be loaded into users browser windows, and much more.

{
  "name": "Magic Chrome Extension",
  "description": "Build a Chrome extension with Magic auth!",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "manifest_version": 3,
  "action": {
    "default_popup": "index.html",
    "default_icon": {
      "16": "/icon-purple.png",
      "48": "/icon-purple.png",
      "128": "/icon-purple.png"
    }
  },
  "icons": {
    "16": "/icon-purple.png",
    "48": "/icon-purple.png",
    "128": "/icon-purple.png"
  }
}

Login.js

A few changes need to be made to the Login.js component which was generated for us with the npx make-magic command. If the window is > 400 pixels wide, it's safe to assume the user is on the full page view, and if so, we'll display the full login form. Otherwise we are assuming the user is viewing in the actual extension popup, so we'll display a button to login, which will create a new full page tab with the login form.

export default function Login() {
  const [email, setEmail] = useState('');
  const [isLoggingIn, setIsLoggingIn] = useState(false);
  const [isFullPage, setIsFullPage] = useState(false);
  const history = useHistory();

  /* Relying on the page width to tell if the user is viewing in the popup or full page */
  useEffect(() => {
    if (window.innerWidth > 400) setIsFullPage(true);
  }, []);

  /**
   * Perform login action via Magic's passwordless flow. Upon successuful
   * completion of the login flow, a user is redirected to the homepage.
   */
  const login = useCallback(async () => {
    setIsLoggingIn(true);

    try {
      await magic.auth.loginWithMagicLink({ email });
      history.push('/');
    } catch {
      setIsLoggingIn(false);
    }
  }, [email]);

  /**
   * Saves the value of our email input into component state.
   */
  const handleInputOnChange = useCallback(event => {
    setEmail(event.target.value);
  }, []);

  return (
    <div className="container">
      {!isFullPage ? (
        <button onClick={() => chrome.tabs.create({ url: 'index.html' })}>Login</button>
      ) : (
        <>
          <h1>Please sign up or login</h1>
          <input
            type="email"
            name="email"
            required="required"
            placeholder="Enter your email"
            onChange={handleInputOnChange}
            disabled={isLoggingIn}
          />
          <button onClick={login} disabled={isLoggingIn}>
            Send
          </button>
        </>
      )}
    </div>
  );
}

Running the App Locally

You need to upload your build folder to Chrome to test your extension locally. Run the following command in your terminal to create the build folder.

yarn build

Next, visit chrome://extensions in your Chrome URL bar. Then toggle Developer Mode on in the top right.

Click "Load unpacked" and select your build folder. You should now see your Chrome extension in your browser! Test it out by clicking through and logging in.

Potential Errors

You may run into an error such as

Refused to execute inline script because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "script-src 'self'"...

Chrome has CSP settings to block certain scripts from being run. If you notice yourself running into this, make sure to include INLINE_RUNTIME_CHUNK=false in your .env file when running yarn build.

Done

Your browser extension app is now secured with Magic! You can follow this link for instructions on how to publish your new extension to the Chrome Web Store https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/publish/