@jungroup/vue-google-oauth2 v1.6.4
vue-google-oauth2
Handling Google sign-in and sign-out for Vue.js applications.
This package is updated to support detection of disabled cookies. This causes issues when users try to login in incognito mode, and the iframe fails to load. This includes an extra flag, cookiesDisabled to check when the plugin is initializing. An external window is used to grab an authCode instead of the regular iframe in these disabled environments, and is passed back in same method outlined below ($gAuth.getAuthCode()).
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We support TypeScript and Nuxt. 😎 For Vue3 applications, please refer to here
Installation
Installation with npm
npm install vue-google-oauth2Installation with yarn
yarn add vue-google-oauth2Initialization
//src/main.js
import GAuth from 'vue-google-oauth2'
const gauthOption = {
clientId: 'CLIENT_ID.apps.googleusercontent.com',
scope: 'profile email',
prompt: 'select_account'
}
Vue.use(GAuth, gauthOption)Please Don't use plus.login scope. It will be deprecated.
Initialization for Nuxt
creates plug-in file for nuxt
// plugins/vue-google-oauth2.js // file name can be changed to whatever you want import Vue from 'vue' import GAuth from 'vue-google-oauth2' const gauthOption = { clientId: 'CLIENT_ID.apps.googleusercontent.com', scope: 'profile email', prompt: 'select_account' } Vue.use(GAuth, gauthOption)adds plugin to nuxt config file
... plugins: [ ... './plugins/vue-google-oauth2' ], ...
Options
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| clientId | String | Required. | The app's client ID, found and created in the Google Developers Console. |
| scope | String | Optional. | Default value is profile email. Full list of scopes. |
| prompt | String | Optional. | This value using for authCode. The possible values are select_account or consent. Default value is select_account. To get refresh token from auth code, use consent. |
| fetch_basic_profile | Boolean | Optional. | If set to true, email profile openid will be automatically added as scope. Default value is true. |
Methods
| Property | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| GoogleAuth | return of gapi.auth2.getAuthInstance() | Object |
| isAuthorized | Whether or not you have auth | Boolean |
| isInit | Whether or not api init | Boolean |
| isLoaded | Whether or not api init. will be deprecated. | Function |
| signIn | function for sign-in | Function |
| getAuthCode | function for getting authCode | Function |
| signOut | function for sign-out | Function |
Usages
Getting authorization code
The authCode that is being returned is the one-time code that you can send to your backend server, so that the server can exchange for its own access_token and refresh_token.
The access_token and refresh_token can be saved in backend storage for reuse and refresh. In this way, you can avoid exposing your api key or secret key whenever you need to use various google APIs.
const authCode = await this.$gAuth.getAuthCode()
const response = await this.$http.post('http://your-backend-server-api-to-use-authcode', { code: authCode, redirect_uri: 'postmessage' })Sign-in: Directly get back the access_token and id_token
const googleUser = await this.$gAuth.signIn()
// googleUser.getId() : Get the user's unique ID string.
// googleUser.getBasicProfile() : Get the user's basic profile information.
// googleUser.getAuthResponse() : Get the response object from the user's auth session. access_token and so on
this.isSignIn = this.$gAuth.isAuthorizedrefer to google signIn reference : GoogleUser
Sign-out
Handling Google sign-out
const response = await this.$gAuth.signOut()Extra - Directly get access_token and refresh_token on Server-side
To get access_token and refresh_token in server side, the data for redirect_uri should be postmessage. postmessage is magic value for redirect_uri to get credentials without actual redirect uri.
Curl
curl -d "client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID&\
client_secret=YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET&\
redirect_uri=postmessage&\
grant_type=authorization_code&\
code=YOUR_AUTH_CODE" https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/tokenSample Code
Additional Help
- sample login page HTML file.
- Google API Client Libraries : Methods and Classes
- If you are curious of how the entire Google sign-in flow works, please refer to the diagram below

FAQ
The failure of initialization happens
You can check the brower console to check errors which occur during initialization. The most of errors are from inproper setting of google oauth2 credentials setting in Google Developer Console. After changing the settings, you have to do hard refresh to clear your caches.
Type Errors
Follow the documentation provided here to add $gAuth as a property for preventing lint errors.
5 years ago