Using MSAL.js to integrate React Single-page applications with Azure Active Directory

Question

I'm learning about authentication on React application using MSAL and I was following this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oPSL5wWeS0

I created an application in Microsoft tenant

and made the code updates:

index.tsx

import { PublicClientApplication } from '@azure/msal-browser';


export const pca = new PublicClientApplication({
  auth: {
    clientId: 'clientId',
    authority: 'https://login.microsoftonline.com/tenantId',
    redirectUri: '/'
  }
});

const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(
  document.getElementById('root') as HTMLElement
);
root.render(
    <App/>
);

App.tsx

import { SignInButton } from './components/SignInButton';
import { MsalProvider} from "@azure/msal-react";
import { pca } from "./index";


function App() {
  
  return (
    <MsalProvider instance={pca}>
      <SignInButton />      
    </MsalProvider>
  );
}

export default App;

SignInButton.tsx

import { DefaultButton } from '@fluentui/react/lib/Button';
import { useMsal } from "@azure/msal-react";

export const SignInButton = () => {
    const { instance } = useMsal();

    const handleSignIn = () => {
        instance.loginRedirect({
            scopes: ['user.read']
        });
    }

    return (
        <DefaultButton onClick={handleSignIn}>Sign in</DefaultButton>
    )
};

and on running the app, I see this error immediately after I click on 'SignIn' button:

What am I missing?

Sridevi · Accepted Answer · 2023-03-15T14:19:38.033

I tried to reproduce the same in my environment and got results as below:

I registered one Azure AD application(SPA) and added redirect URI as http://localhost:3000 like this:

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Now I cloned same msal-react sample and modified code as below:

App.js

import Grid from "@mui/material/Grid";
import { PageLayout } from "./components/PageLayout";
import { Routes, Route } from "react-router-dom";

import { Home } from "./pages/Home";
import { Profile } from "./pages/Profile";

import { MsalProvider } from "@azure/msal-react";


function App({msalInstance}) {
    return (
        <MsalProvider instance = {msalInstance}>
        <PageLayout>
            <Grid container justifyContent="center">
                <Pages />
            </Grid>
        </PageLayout>
        </MsalProvider>
    );
}

const Pages = () => {
    return (
        <Routes>
            <Route path="/" element={<Home />} />
            <Route path="/profile" element={<Profile />} />
        </Routes>
    );
}

export default App;

SignInButton.jsx

import Button from '@mui/material/Button';

import { useMsal } from '@azure/msal-react';


export const SignInButton = () => {
    const {instance} = useMsal();

    const handleSignIn = () => {
        instance.loginRedirect({
            scopes: ['user.read']
        });
    }

    return (
        <Button color="inherit" onClick={handleSignIn}>Sign in</Button>
    )
};

index.js

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom/client';

import { ThemeProvider } from '@mui/material/styles';
import { theme } from "./styles/theme";

import { BrowserRouter } from "react-router-dom";

import App from './App';

import { PublicClientApplication } from '@azure/msal-browser';

const pca = new PublicClientApplication({
    auth: {
        clientId: '7006179e-2a1a-4790-9847-xxxxxxxxx',
        authority: 'https://login.microsoftonline.com/3f5c7a77-062d-426c-8582-xxxxxxxxxxx',
        redirectUri: '/',
    }
});

const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('root'));
root.render(
    <React.StrictMode>
        <BrowserRouter>
            <ThemeProvider theme={theme}>
                <App msalInstance={pca} />
            </ThemeProvider>
        </BrowserRouter>
    </React.StrictMode>
);

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When I ran http://localhost:3000 in browser, I got below screen:

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After clicking Sign In button, I got login screen to pick account like below:

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When I selected account in which application with provided client ID exists, I got consent screen like this:

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After approving the consent, user signed in successfully with below screen:

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In your case, check whether you are passing AppID of application in clientId parameter or not.

To reproduce the error, I changed code by replacing AppID with ObjectID of application in clientId parameter

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom/client';

import { ThemeProvider } from '@mui/material/styles';
import { theme } from "./styles/theme";

import { BrowserRouter } from "react-router-dom";

import App from './App';

import { PublicClientApplication } from '@azure/msal-browser';

const pca = new PublicClientApplication({
    auth: {
        clientId: 'bfd0d11b-0dd4-4acd-bbab-xxxxxxxxxx',
        authority: 'https://login.microsoftonline.com/3f5c7a77-062d-426c-8582-xxxxxxxxxxx',
        redirectUri: '/',
    }
});

const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('root'));
root.render(
    <React.StrictMode>
        <BrowserRouter>
            <ThemeProvider theme={theme}>
                <App msalInstance={pca} />
            </ThemeProvider>
        </BrowserRouter>
    </React.StrictMode>
);

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I got same error immediately after I clicking Sign In button like below:

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To resolve the error, make sure to pass AppID of application that can be found here:

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Thanks! My client if is correct. Did you run it locally? Do I have to be an admin of the tenant where I create the application to get it working? — user989988, Mar 15 '23 at 13:41
Actually I created and ran it with admin credentials, didn't try with normal user. — Sridevi, Mar 15 '23 at 13:45
So could you please try creating an app in the tenant where you are you are not an admin and see if that reproduces the error? — user989988, Mar 15 '23 at 14:00
Thank you! Can you please also add your code from App.tsx and SignInButton.tsx? — user989988, Mar 15 '23 at 14:14
I now see no error. But when I click login button, it just reloads the page instead of showing login screen. — user989988, Mar 15 '23 at 14:31
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/252537/discussion-between-sridevi-and-user989988). — Sridevi, Mar 15 '23 at 14:32

Using MSAL.js to integrate React Single-page applications with Azure Active Directory

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