User Settings

Authgear provides a wide range of prebuilt frontend for the authentication related features of your apps

Actions in the settings page

The end-user can perform the following actions on the setting page:

  • Change their password.

  • Add or change their email, phone number or username.

  • Connect or disconnect to identity providers.

  • Manage the signed in sessions.

  • Enable or disable 2-step verification.

  • and many more.

Open the settings page in websites

Use the open method to open the built-in settings page

import authgear, { Page } from "@authgear/web";

const openSettings = () = {
    authgear.open(Page.Settings)
}

Open the settings page with the SDK in mobile apps

If you are working on a mobile apps, you can open the settings page using the SDK. When the end-user has signed in, the SDK provides a method to open the settings page in a webview.

import React, { useCallback } from "react";
import authgear, { Page } from "@authgear/react-native";
import { View, Button } from "react-native";

function SettingsScreen() {
  const onPressOpenSettingsPage = useCallback(() => {
    authgear.open(Page.Settings).then(() => {
      // When the promise resolves, the webview have been closed.
    });
  }, []);
  return (
    <View>
      <Button
        title="Open Settings Page"
        onPress={onPressOpenSettingsPage}
      />
    </View>
  );
}

Back to my app button

In web-based application, you may want to add the "Back to my app" button to the settings page so the user can navigate back to your website after changing the settings.

  1. Go to Portal > UI Settings

  2. Provide the URL in Back to Your App Link and click Save

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