Social Authentication for Administrators

Allow admins to login with social accounts like Google.

Currently this plugin only supports Google login for the Admin UI! The plugin setup allows for easy extension of other auth providers though. Contributions welcome: Contact us via Discord and we'll help you get started on contributing.

You will be able to login if an administrator with your email address already exists in Vendure. Roles and permissions are still handled in Vendure. This plugin disables the native authentication method, so you will only be able to login via Google.

Set up Google login

First, you need to get your Google Client id using these steps: https://developers.google.com/identity/gsi/web/guides/get-google-api-clientid. This should give you a client id that looks something like xxxxx.apps.googleusercontent.com

1. Install google-auth-library: yarn add google-auth-library

2. In your vendure-config.ts, add the plugin and set the new login url in the AdminUiPlugin:

3. Start the server and navigate to localhost:3000/admin, it should automatically redirect you to /social-auth/login
4. Login with your Google account
5. If an administrator exists with the same email address, you will be redirected to your dashboard.

Administrators are managed via the default Vendure Admin UI. Just create an administrator with the same email address as the social account. When an admin logs in with a social account for the first time, the social auth method will be added to the user.authenticationMethods.

If you want to login with the superadmin username/password again, you will need to disable this plugin and remove the adminUiConfig.loginUrl setting from the AdminUiPlugin again.

You can still hide the Vendure version and Vendure branding like you normally would:

The same goes for customizing the logo on the login page: https://docs.vendure.io/guides/extending-the-admin-ui/admin-ui-theming-branding/#specifying-custom-logos