An example of Cypress, Auth0, and Next.js authentication for a local Cypress test

README.md

Edit:

Since writing this gist, sir-dunxalot/cypress-nextjs-auth0 was released, which encapsulates this gist in a more user-friendly way. Try it out:

yarn add cypress-nextjs-auth0 --dev

This gist

A walkthrough is covered in this blog post.

• You need to enable the password grant type in your Auth0 application's settings
• You need to set the default directory (in your Auth0 tenant settings) to Username-Password-Authentication, which is usually the name of the database connection you want to use for password grant authentication (the name will be shown in Auth0 Dashboard --> Connections --> Database).
• The username and password combination should be a real user (albeit one you create for testing only)
• This method skips token verification and reveals secrets, but I am assuming I can reduce security in my test environment
• Auth0 recommends you use seperate tenants for development, testing, and production
• If this setup fails, you may need to add "chromeWebSecurity": false to your cypress.json config file.

commands.js

import auth0 from 'auth0-js';
import Iron from '@hapi/iron';

const auth = new auth0.WebAuth({
  domain: Cypress.env('auth0Domain'),
  clientID: Cypress.env('auth0ClientId'),
});

Cypress.Commands.add('getUserInfo', (accessToken) => {
  return new Cypress.Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    auth.client.userInfo(accessToken, (err, user) => {
      if (err) {
        reject(err);
      }

      resolve(user);
    });
  });
});

Cypress.Commands.add('_loginTestUser', (options = {}) => {
  return new Cypress.Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    auth.client.loginWithDefaultDirectory({
      username: Cypress.env('auth0Username'),
      password: Cypress.env('auth0Password'),
      audience: Cypress.env('auth0Audience'),
      scope: Cypress.env('auth0Scope'),
      client_secret: Cypress.env('auth0ClientSecret'),
    }, (err, response) => {
      if (err) {
        reject(err);
      } else {
        resolve(response);
      }
    });
  });
});

Cypress.Commands.add('seal', (thingToEncrypt) => {
  return new Cypress.Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    try {
      Iron.seal(thingToEncrypt, Cypress.env('auth0CookieSecret'), Iron.defaults).then((encryptedThing) => {
        resolve(encryptedThing);
      });
    } catch(error) {
      reject(error);
    }
  });
});

Cypress.Commands.add('login', (overrides = {}) => {
  // cy.clearCookies(); // If needed

  /* https://github.com/auth0/nextjs-auth0/blob/master/src/handlers/login.ts#L70 */

  cy.setCookie('a0:state', 'some-random-state');

  cy._loginTestUser().then((response) => {
    const {
      accessToken,
      expiresIn,
      idToken,
      scope,
      tokenType,
    } = response;

    cy.getUserInfo(accessToken).then((user) => {

      /* https://github.com/auth0/nextjs-auth0/blob/master/src/handlers/callback.ts#L44 */
      /* https://github.com/auth0/nextjs-auth0/blob/master/src/handlers/callback.ts#L47 */
      /* https://github.com/auth0/nextjs-auth0/blob/master/src/session/cookie-store/index.ts#L57 */

      const persistedSession = {
        user,
        idToken,
        accessToken,
        accessTokenScope: scope,
        accessTokenExpiresAt: Date.now() + expiresIn,
        createdAt: Date.now(),
      };

      /* https://github.com/auth0/nextjs-auth0/blob/master/src/session/cookie-store/index.ts#L73 */

      cy.seal(persistedSession).then((encryptedSession) => {
        cy.setCookie('a0:session', encryptedSession);
      });
    });
  });
});

cypress.env.json

{
  "auth0Domain": "YOUR_APP.auth0.com",
  "auth0Audience": "https://YOUR_APP.auth0.com/api/v2/",
  "auth0Username": "A_REAL_USERNAME",
  "auth0Password": "THE_REAL_USERS_PASSWORD",
  "auth0Scope": "openid profile email",
  "auth0ClientId": "YOUR_CLIENT_ID",
  "auth0ClientSecret": "YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET",
  "auth0CookieSecret": "YOUR_COOKIE_SECRET",
}

login.spec.js

context('Login', () => {
  it('should successfully log into our app', () => {
    cy.login().then((resp) => {
      // User is now logged in similar to https://github.com/auth0/nextjs-auth0
    });
  });
});

After 3 hours fighting one problem after the other following the official doc, your gist was a breeze of fresh air of plug and playness.
Lovely.

@johanlajili Glad to hear it! Within a couple of weeks I hope to release v1 of a Cypress addon to make this set up a one-line install. You can follow along with progress here.

@sir-dunxalot thank you so much for making this. I do have one more question though. I am using the @auth0/auth0-react package which uses the Auth0Provider. This seems to be have a unique name for the cookie being created so although your code does authenticate and creates a session I'm still getting redirected. I was wondering if you knew what the cookie name should be as well as anything else that may be needed.

I have the same issue as @dchoigt

@sir-dunxalot I have a question about "Default directory" - in my company we have it setup differently. Where in the cypress code and how that is used? How can I change code to use value from that field?