auth-drawer

name

auth-drawer

description

Integrate the @remcostoeten/auth-drawer React library (a sign-in/sign-up drawer or modal) into a consumer app. Use this whenever the user wants to add a login/signup/auth surface, an "auth drawer" or "auth modal", wrap their app in AuthProvider, render <AuthDrawer>, call useAuth(), pick or write an auth adapter (Better Auth, Supabase, Clerk, NextAuth, Firebase, custom JWT/REST, Passport, or createMockAdapter), or configure auth triggers/theming for that package. Use it even if the user only mentions the auth backend (e.g. "add a Supabase login drawer") and doesn't name the package, as long as @remcostoeten/auth-drawer is or will be the UI. Do NOT use it for unrelated drawer/sheet UI, for configuring an auth backend with no auth-drawer UI, or for other auth UI kits.

Auth Drawer Integration

@remcostoeten/auth-drawer is a headless-ish React auth surface — a drawer or modal with email/password, OAuth buttons, registration, forgot-password, and configurable triggers. It does not talk to any auth backend directly. Instead an adapter bridges the UI to whatever auth engine the app uses. Your job is to wire three things together correctly and pick the right adapter.

The mental model

The library splits cleanly into UI and backend:

• UI (AuthDrawer, AuthProvider, useAuth) — ships with the package.
• Adapter — an object implementing AuthAdapter. Either use a prebuilt one (@remcostoeten/auth-drawer/adapters/<name>) or build a custom one with createAdapter. The adapter is the only integration point with the auth backend.
• Config (AuthConfig) — purely declarative: how the surface looks (ui.*) and what opens it (triggers.*). Never auth logic.

The drawer uses feature detection on the adapter: it shows or hides UI based on which optional methods the adapter implements. Implement signUp and the Register tab appears; implement signInWithOAuth and OAuth buttons appear; implement requestPasswordReset and the forgot-password link appears. This is why choosing/shaping the adapter is the most consequential step — don't try to toggle these via config.

# pick the user's package manager (check for bun.lock / pnpm-lock.yaml / package-lock.json)
bun add @remcostoeten/auth-drawer

Peer dependencies the host app must already have (install if missing): react (^18 || ^19), react-dom, framer-motion (^12), lucide-react.

Styles are included out of the box. The package entry imports its bundled CSS as a side effect (and package.json marks *.css as side-effecting), so just importing from @remcostoeten/auth-drawer brings the styles with it — no manual CSS import needed.

Only reach for the standalone export in special cases:

// Optional. Use only if your bundler strips CSS side effects, or you want to
// control stylesheet order explicitly:
import "@remcostoeten/auth-drawer/styles.css";
// Or, for Tailwind projects that prefer the source layer over the prebuilt CSS:
import "@remcostoeten/auth-drawer/styles/tailwind.css";

Minimal wiring (the happy path)

Three pieces. Build them in this order.

1. Create the adapter (see references/adapters.md to choose — start with createMockAdapter if the backend isn't ready):

import { createBetterAuthAdapter } from "@remcostoeten/auth-drawer/adapters/better-auth";
import { authClient } from "@/lib/auth-client";

export const authAdapter = createBetterAuthAdapter({ client: authClient });

2. Wrap the app in AuthProvider — it calls adapter.useSession() once and exposes session + drawer controls through context:

import { AuthProvider } from "@remcostoeten/auth-drawer";
import { authAdapter } from "./auth-adapter";

export function App({ children }) {
	return <AuthProvider adapter={authAdapter}>{children}</AuthProvider>;
}

3. Render <AuthDrawer> somewhere inside the provider:

import { AuthDrawer } from "@remcostoeten/auth-drawer";

<AuthDrawer adapter={authAdapter} />;

By default AuthDrawer renders its own floating trigger button. To drive it from your own UI instead, set hideTrigger. When the drawer is inside AuthProvider and no open/onOpenChange props are passed, useAuth() controls its open state. Pass open/onOpenChange only when the host app needs explicit controlled state.

Read session + open the drawer from anywhere under the provider:

import { useAuth } from "@remcostoeten/auth-drawer";

function Header() {
	const { user, isPending, openDrawer, signOut } = useAuth();
	if (isPending) return null;
	return user ? (
		<button onClick={signOut}>Sign out {user.email}</button>
	) : (
		<button onClick={openDrawer}>Sign in</button>
	);
}

useAuth() throws if called outside AuthProvider — keep the provider above every consumer.

CSS token customization

Theme the packaged surface by overriding the existing HSL component tokens in app CSS. Do not document or invent a cad-* theme API.

:root {
	--surface-overlay: 34 12% 82%;
	--text-on-overlay: 24 18% 14%;
	--border-overlay: 28 12% 54%;
}

Choosing an adapter

Backend	Import	Factory
Better Auth	.../adapters/better-auth	createBetterAuthAdapter({ client })
Supabase	.../adapters/supabase	createSupabaseAdapter({ supabase })
Clerk	.../adapters/clerk	createClerkAdapter({ client })
NextAuth / Auth.js	.../adapters/next-auth	createNextAuthAdapter({ client })
Firebase	.../adapters/firebase	createFirebaseAdapter({ auth, ...fns })
Custom JWT / REST	.../adapters/custom-jwt	createCustomJwtAdapter({ baseUrl })
Passport (session)	.../adapters/passport	createPassportAdapter({ ... })
Mock / demo	.../adapters/mock	createMockAdapter()
Anything else	(main export)	createAdapter({ id, signIn, useSession, ... })

All paths are subpath imports under @remcostoeten/auth-drawer. For exact option shapes, OAuth handling, and createAdapter custom-adapter rules (including which methods are required vs. optional and how useSession must obey the Rules of Hooks), read references/adapters.md before writing adapter code.

Configuration

Pass a config?: AuthConfig to AuthDrawer. Everything is optional and merged over DEFAULT_CONFIG. Two namespaces:

• config.ui.* — appearance & form behavior: auth (providers, register/remember flags, initial mode, email autocomplete), copy (all labels/messages), presentation (variant: "drawer" | "modal", defaultOpen), visual.backdrop, motion, and a custom footer.
• config.triggers.* — rules that auto-open the surface.

<AuthDrawer
	adapter={authAdapter}
	config={{
		ui: {
			auth: { providers: ["github", "google"], allowRegister: true },
			presentation: { variant: "modal" },
		},
	}}
/>

ui.auth.providers may be [] to disable OAuth entirely (the button group and divider disappear). Valid providers: github, google, apple, discord, tiktok. For the full config tree, defaults, theming, and copy overrides, read references/config.md.

Triggers (auto-opening the surface)

For "open on scroll", "open after idle", "open on a 401/expired session", or "open from non-React code", use the trigger system: declare rules in config.triggers.* and emit events into a shared createAuthTriggerStore() that you pass to AuthDrawer via triggerStore. pageLoad and click triggers work with no store; scroll/state/idle/custom need the shared store. Full patterns (including useScrollOpenTrigger and TriggerPolicy: once/cooldownMs/ scope/every/sampleRate) are in references/triggers.md.

Error handling

Adapter actions return AuthResult ({ success, data?, error? }). On failure, return { success: false, error } where error is an AuthUiError with a code and a target field that routes the message to the right input (email, password, confirmPassword, form, or oauth). Prebuilt adapters already map backend errors; for a custom adapter, return the AuthUiError object literal (the internal createAdapterError helper isn't publicly exported) or implement normalizeError. Error codes and the full shape are in references/errors.md.

Common gotchas

• Don't manually add the CSS import unless you have a reason — styles come in automatically via the package's side-effecting entry. Only import @remcostoeten/auth-drawer/styles.css explicitly if your bundler strips CSS side effects and the drawer renders unstyled.
• useAuth() outside the provider → throws. The provider must wrap every consumer, including the component that renders <AuthDrawer> if it reads context.
• Trying to hide the Register tab / OAuth via config → won't work for registration (omit signUp on the adapter). For OAuth, the drawer prefers adapter.providers over config.ui.auth.providers; pass providers: [] on the adapter factory, omit signInWithOAuth, or keep both lists aligned.
• useSession must follow the Rules of Hooks — it is a React hook called inside the provider. A custom adapter's useSession may not call other hooks conditionally. If you have no reactive session, return a static { data: null, isPending: false, error: null } (this is what createAdapter defaults to).
• SSR / Next.js — AuthProvider, AuthDrawer, and useAuth are client-side. Put them in a "use client" boundary. Add <div id="auth-drawer-portal" /> in your root layout so the drawer portals above page content (without it, the drawer still works but renders inline).
• Success callbacks inside a provider — drawer submissions already invoke AuthProvider's onSuccess. Prefer provider-level (or adapter.onSuccess) handlers for redirects; AuthDrawer's onSuccess is optional and stacks on top.
• Don't reach into the package internals — the public API is exactly what the main export and the adapters/* subpaths expose. Build against those.

Reference files

• references/adapters.md — every prebuilt adapter's options, the AuthAdapter contract, and how to write a custom adapter with createAdapter.
• references/config.md — the full AuthConfig tree, DEFAULT_CONFIG, theming (visual/motion), copy overrides, and email autocomplete.
• references/triggers.md — the trigger store, declarative trigger config, useScrollOpenTrigger, emit patterns, and TriggerPolicy.
• references/errors.md — AuthResult, AuthUiError, all error codes, and normalizeError.