This is a micro-frontend application responsible for the login, registration and password reset functionality.
What is the domain of this MFE?
- Register page
- Login page
- Forgot password page
- Reset password page
- Progressive profiling page
This MFE is bundled with Devstack, see the Getting Started section for setup instructions.
- Install Devstack using the Getting Started instructions.
- Start up LMS, if it's not already started.
Within this project (frontend-app-authn), install requirements and start the development server:
npm install npm start # The server will run on port 1999Once the dev server is up, visit http://localhost:1999 to access the MFE
Note: Follow Enable social auth locally for enabling Social Sign-on Buttons (SSO) locally
This MFE is configured via environment variables supplied at build time. All micro-frontends have a shared set of required environment variables, as documented in the Open edX Developer Guide under Required Environment Variables.
The authentication micro-frontend also requires the following additional variable:
Environment Variables| Name | Description / Usage | Example |
|---|---|---|
LOGIN_ISSUE_SUPPORT_LINK |
The fully-qualified URL to the login issue support page in the target environment. | https://support.example.com |
ACTIVATION_EMAIL_SUPPORT_LINK |
The fully-qualified URL to the activation email support page in the target environment. | https://support.example.com |
PASSWORD_RESET_SUPPORT_LINK |
The fully-qualified URL to the password reset support page in the target environment. | https://support.example.com |
AUTHN_PROGRESSIVE_PROFILING_SUPPORT_LINK |
The fully-qualified URL to the progressive profiling support page in the target environment. | https://support.example.com |
TOS_AND_HONOR_CODE |
The fully-qualified URL to the Honor code page in the target environment. | https://example.com/honor |
TOS_LINK |
The fully-qualified URL to the Terms of service page in the target environment. | https://example.com/tos |
PRIVACY_POLICY |
The fully-qualified URL to the Privacy policy page in the target environment. | https://example.com/privacy |
INFO_EMAIL |
The valid email address for information query regarding the target environment. | info@example.com |
ENABLE_DYNAMIC_REGISTRATION_FIELDS |
Enables support for configurable registration fields on the MFE. This flag must be enabled to show any required registration field besides the default fields (name, email, username, password). | true | '' (empty strings are falsy) |
ENABLE_PROGRESSIVE_PROFILING_ON_AUTHN |
Enables support for progressive profiling. If enabled, users are redirected to a second page where data for optional registration fields can be collected. | true | '' (empty strings are falsy) |
DISABLE_ENTERPRISE_LOGIN |
Disables the enterprise login from Authn MFE. | true | '' (empty strings are falsy) |
MFE_CONFIG_API_URL |
Link of the API to get runtime mfe configuration variables from the site configuration or django settings. | /api/v1/mfe_config | '' (empty strings are falsy) |
APP_ID |
Name of MFE, this will be used by the API to get runtime configurations for the specific micro frontend. For a frontend repo frontend-app-appName, use appName as APP_ID. | authn | '' |
ENABLE_IMAGE_LAYOUT |
Enables the image layout feature within the authn. When set to True, this feature allows the inclusion of images in the base container layout. For more details on configuring this feature, please refer to the Modifying base container. | true | '' (empty strings are falsy) |
Furthermore, there are several edX-specific environment variables that enable integrations with closed-source services private to the edX organization, and might be unsupported in Open edX.
edX-specific Environment Variables| Name | Description / Usage | Example |
|---|---|---|
MARKETING_EMAILS_OPT_IN |
Enables support for opting in marketing emails that helps us getting user consent for sending marketing emails. | true | '' (empty strings are falsy) |
SHOW_CONFIGURABLE_EDX_FIELDS |
For edX, country and honor code fields are required by default. This flag enables edX specific required fields. | true | '' (empty strings are falsy) |
For more information see the document: Micro-frontend applications in Open edX.
Contributions are very welcome, and strongly encouraged! We've put together some documentation that describes our contribution process.
Even though they were written with edx-platform in mind, the guidelines should be followed for Open edX code in general.
PR description template should be automatically applied if you are sending PR from github interface; otherwise you can find it it at PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md
This project is currently accepting all types of contributions, bug fixes and security fixes.
If you're having trouble, we have discussion forums at https://discuss.openedx.org where you can connect with others in the community.
Our real-time conversations are on Slack. You can request a Slack invitation, then join our community Slack workspace. Because this is a frontend repository, the best place to discuss it would be in the #wg-frontend channel.
For anything non-trivial, the best path is to open an issue in this repository with as many details about the issue you are facing as you can provide.
https://github.com/openedx/frontend-app-authn/issues
For more information about these options, see the Getting Help page.
All community members are expected to follow the Open edX Code of Conduct.
The assigned maintainers for this component and other project details may be found in Backstage. Backstage pulls this data from the catalog-info.yaml file in this repo.
Please do not report security issues in public. Please email security@openedx.org.
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The code in this repository is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0, unless otherwise noted.
Please see LICENSE for details.