🌈Picket Authentication with RainbowKit

Learn how to use Picket + RainbowKit to authenticate users

Overview

RainbowKit is a popular library for allowing users to connect their (EVM) wallet to your app. If you prefer to use RainbowKit instead of Picket's built-in login modal, we've got you covered. Picket React SDK exposes a PicketRainbowAuthProvider to allow you to use Picket for authenticating and authorizing users with RainbowKit's connect modal UI.

Follow the guide below to get started, but be aware of the known limitations.

Getting Started

Requirements

• You have a Picket account. If you don't, sign up at https://picketapi.com/

• You've read the Setup Guide

1. Create a Rainbow Template App

# follow the intstructions and cd in the the new project directory
npm init  @rainbow-me/rainbowkit@latest

2. Install Picket React

React SDK - picket-react

npm install "@picketapi/picket-react"

3. Add PicketRainbowAuthProvider to Your App

// pages/_app.tsx
// ...boilerplate imports
import { PicketRainbowAuthProvider } from "@picketapi/picket-react";

// ...boilerplate code

function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }: AppProps) {
  return (
    <WagmiConfig client={wagmiClient}>
      {/* 
        ORDER MATTERS! PicketRainbowAuthProvider must be nested 
        between WagmiConfig and RainbowKitProvider
      */}
      <PicketRainbowAuthProvider apiKey="YOUR_PUBLISHABLE_KEY_HERE">
        <RainbowKitProvider chains={chains}>
          <Component {...pageProps} />
        </RainbowKitProvider>
      </PicketRainbowAuthProvider>
    </WagmiConfig>
  );
}

3. Add Your Picket API Key

1. Navigate to your Picket project's
2. Copy your publishable key

3. Paste it as a parameter to the PicketRainbowAuthProvider

import { PicketRainbowAuthProvider } from "@picketapi/picket-react";

function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }: AppProps) {
  return (
    <WagmiConfig client={wagmiClient}>
      {/* 
        Replace YOUR_PUBLISHABLE_KEY_HERE with your project's publishable key
      */}
      <PicketRainbowAuthProvider apiKey="YOUR_PUBLISHABLE_KEY_HERE">
        <RainbowKitProvider chains={chains}>
          <Component {...pageProps} />
        </RainbowKitProvider>
      </PicketRainbowAuthProvider>
    </WagmiConfig>
  );
}

4. Run the Development Server

npm run dev

5. View the App

Open http://localhost:3000 in your browser to see the result

6. Login with Your Wallet

Click the Connect Wallet button to start the login flow. Once you've connected your wallet, you should see another modal to start the login flow (see screenshots below).

Initiate Login

Verify Signature to Login

Congrats! You've successfully setup a custom authentication integration for RainbowKit with Picket!

Known Limitations

No Authorization (Token-Gating)

At the moment, RainbowKit doesn't support custom error messages, which means we can't warn users that they cannot login because of token-gating requirements. For this reason, we've disabled token-gating on login for this integration; however, you can still use Picket Incremental Authorization to token-gate after the user has logged in.

EVM Only

Picket makes it easy to authenticate and authorize users on any chain , but RainbowKit is exclusive to the EVM ecosystem. You cannot use non-EVM functionality, like token gating on Solana, with this integration.