Sign in with Matrix

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Over 35 million Matrix users can't wait to use your app. Use this pre-built component to make federated sign-in a no-effort zero-brainer

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Cool stuff

• Based on svelte, vite and typescript
• Fully customisable and ready to use (even commercially)
• Extremely lightweight
• Framework-agnostic
• Superior User-Interface and User-Experience
• Secure, requires no backend to function
• Fully accessible, compliant with WCAG Accessibility Guidelines
• Compliant with Matrix 1.0 Protocol spec

Install

Browser

ES Module

<script defer src="https://unpkg.com/signin-with-matrix@latest/dist/index.es.js"></script>

UMD

<script defer src="https://unpkg.com/signin-with-matrix@latest/dist/index.umd.js"></script>

NPM

npm i signin-with-matrix

Import into your application with

import signIn from 'signin-with-matrix'

Use

Add the two components to your HTML

<matrix-signin id="signin"></matrix-signin>
<matrix-signin-button target="signin">
  Sign in with Matrix
</matrix-signin-button>

• <matrix-signin> is the modal window
• <matrix-signin-button> is a button which toggles the modal

Spec

<matrix-signin>

HTML attributes

• displayName (String), name that will be displayed in Matrix
• title (String), modal title
• homeserver (String), default home server

Example

<matrix-signin
  displayName="My app"
  title="Use my app with Matrix"
  homeserver="matrix.org">
</matrix-signin>

Methods

• open(), opens the modal
• close(), closes the modal
• cancel(), cancels the modal (will send cancel event)
• isSignedIn(), checks if user is signed in
• getUser(), returns current user, returns Promise
• signOut(), sign out, returns Promise

Events

• open, when modal opens
• cancel, when modal is cancelled
• success, when login has succeeded (with user object)
• error, when error occurs (with error object)
• signout, when user signs out

Example

Vanilla HTML + JS

<matrix-signin id="signin"></matrix-signin>
<script>
  const signIn = document.querySelector('matrix-signin')
  signIn.addEventListener('success', ({ detail }) => {
    console.log(detail.user)
  })
</script>

Vue

<template>
  <matrix-signin @success="notify"></matrix-signin>
</template>

<script>
export default {
  methods: {
    notify (user) {
      alert(JSON.stringify(user))
    }
  }
}
</script>

Styling

CSS variables available to style

--matrix-signin-shim-background
--matrix-signin-shim-blur
--matrix-signin-dialog-background
--matrix-signin-dialog-border-color
--matrix-signin-dialog-shadow
--matrix-signin-dialog-text-color
--matrix-signin-dialog-icon-color
--matrix-signin-dialog-hover-color
--matrix-signin-dialog-error-color
--matrix-signin-dialog-form-background
--matrix-signin-dialog-button-background
--matrix-signin-dialog-button-color

<matrix-signin-button>

HTML attributes

• target (String), id of the target <matrix-signin> component

Example

<matrix-signin-button target="signin">
  Sign in with Matrix
</matrix-signin-button>

Development

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/mishushakov/signin-with-matrix.git

2. Install dependencies

npm i

3. Start dev server

npm run dev

4. Build

npm run build

Acknowledgements

• macOS Big Sur design
• Icons by Feather
• focus-trap
• boringavatars