Mobile Ionic Authenticaton App using AWS Cognito

Quicklinks

• AWS Console
• Ionic
• Angular

Architecture Overview

Ionic is a popular Javascript framework that leverages Angular and Apache Cordova to run hybrid apps on mobile devices. The app will allow users to sign-up, confirm/verify email and login to gain access to authorized AWS resources.

AWS Services used:

• Amazon Cognito User Pools
• Amazon Cognito Federated Identities

Prerequisites:

• AWS Account
• NodeJS with NPM
• Ionic CLI

Backend setup

1. Create or Sign In to your AWS Cognito environment
2. Create an AWS Cognito User Pool
3. Create an AWS Federated Identity Pool
4. Edit the AWS Federated Identity Pool, adding the AWS Cognito User Pool created in step 2(above).
5. Add an App Client to the AWS Cognito User Pool created in step 2(above). Note: Make sure to uncheck the checkbox "Generate client secret".

Ionic app setup

1. Clone this repo: 'git clone https://github.com/hardydex/ionic-cognito-app'
2. Open the congito.config.ts file; Add the informaion for the following:
   • region: 'your-region',
   • userPoolId: 'your-region_1gfVMWz3c',
   • appId: 'your-app-id',
   • idpUrl: 'cognito-idp.your-region.amazonaws.com',
   • identityPoolId: 'your-region:guid-of-the-identityPool'
3. Open a bash shell and navigate to the project folder.
4. Then run.

$ sudo npm install

Then, to run it, and run:

$ ionic cordova platform add ios
$ ionic cordova run ios

Substitute ios for android if not on a Mac. Note: you can also substitute ios for browser if you want to run the application in a browser:

$ ionic serve --browser -yourbrowserofchoice