middleware for authentication in your Next.js app integrated with Keycloak

#nextjs

Install the necessary packages. You'll need the keycloak-js package to handle authentication with Keycloak. You can install it by running the following command:

npm install keycloak-js

Create a new file called keycloak.js in the root of your project.
In keycloak.js, you can configure the Keycloak client using the Keycloak constructor. Here's an example:

import Keycloak from 'keycloak-js';

const keycloak = new Keycloak({
  url: 'YOUR_KEYCLOAK_URL',
  realm: 'YOUR_REALM',
  clientId: 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID',
});

export default keycloak;

Make sure to replace 'YOUR_KEYCLOAK_URL', 'YOUR_REALM', and 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID' with the appropriate values for your Keycloak setup.

In your Next.js _app.js file, you can add the Keycloak authentication logic. Here's an example:

import { useEffect } from 'react';
import keycloak from '../keycloak';

function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }) {
  useEffect(() => {
    keycloak
      .init({ onLoad: 'login-required' })
      .then((authenticated) => {
        if (authenticated) {
          console.log('User is authenticated');
        } else {
          console.log('User is not authenticated');
        }
      })
      .catch((error) => {
        console.error('Keycloak initialization error:', error);
      });
  }, []);

  return <Component {...pageProps} />;
}

export default MyApp;

This code initializes the Keycloak client when the app loads and redirects the user to the Keycloak login page if they are not authenticated.

To protect specific routes with authentication, you can create a custom higher-order component (HOC) that checks if the user is authenticated before rendering the page. Here's an example:

import keycloak from '../keycloak';

export function withAuth(Component) {
  return function AuthenticatedComponent(props) {
    const { authenticated } = keycloak;

    if (!authenticated) {
      return <div>Not authenticated</div>; // Redirect to login page
    }

    return <Component {...props} />;
  };
}