Kerbstomp / metamask-user-auth

metamask-user-auth

This project's purpose is to serve as an example of an implementation of user authentication using Metamask

• Uses Django for the backend
• Uses React bootstrapped with create-react-app for the frontend
• Requires the Metamask wallet extension to be installed to work
• Purposefully did not style the app at all so anyone could take this and make it look how they want

Installation

Requires both python (> 3.11) and the package manager pip to be installed

pipenv install
pipenv shell
python manage.py runserver

The application will now be running on 127.0.0.1:8000/

Potential Future Improvements

Backend

• Adding check to make sure address sent to backend is a valid ETH address
• Moving sensitive data to env vars
• Ability to take in the ETH network and configure web3 instance based on this (right now hardcoded to goerli)

Frontend

• Creating button to request 'connect' to Metmask wallet rather than requesting this right away (this would allow a user to browse the website before authenticating)
• Moving sensitive data to env vars
• Retrieve and send the ETH network along with request to backend