@padosoft/laravel-iam-react-native

Thin, fail-closed React Native client and hooks for the Laravel IAM control plane.

Ask the IAM server "can this user do this?" from your React Native (or React) app — with the exact same wire contract and guarantees as the PHP and Node clients, plus React hooks that stay fail-closed while loading.

📚 Full documentation: doc.laravel-iam-react-native.padosoft.com — quickstart, hook lifecycle, fail-closed theory, the Hermes/Web Crypto caveat, ADRs, and the full API reference.

Why

• Fail-closed by construction. Network error, timeout, 5xx, 4xx, malformed body, or unverifiable token resolves to deny. Always. Loading resolves to deny. No fail-open switch.
• No PDP logic client-side. Every verdict comes from the server's decisions/check. The client never interprets grants.
• React Native safe. No node:crypto, no Node built-ins. Uses the RN fetch polyfill and jose (Web Crypto / globalThis.crypto.subtle).
• Zero runtime coupling to the Node SDK. Wire types are imported from @padosoft/laravel-iam-node with import type — completely erased at build time. No Node SDK runtime code runs in your app.
• First-class React hooks. usePermission and useCan integrate with React context — check a permission in one line.

Install

npm install @padosoft/laravel-iam-react-native

Requires React Native >= 0.71 (Hermes with globalThis.crypto.subtle) for verifyToken. For check() / hooks only, any RN version with fetch works.

Quick start

1. Configure the client and provider

import { IamClient, IamProvider } from '@padosoft/laravel-iam-react-native';

const iam = new IamClient({
  baseUrl: 'https://iam.example.com/api/iam/v1',
  token: process.env.IAM_SERVICE_TOKEN,
  timeoutMs: 2000,
  cache: { ttlMs: 5000 },
});

export default function App() {
  const userId = useAuth().userId;

  return (
    <IamProvider client={iam} subject={{ type: 'user', id: userId }}>
      <Navigation />
    </IamProvider>
  );
}

2. Check permissions with hooks

import { usePermission } from '@padosoft/laravel-iam-react-native';

function StockAdjustButton({ warehouseId }: { warehouseId: string }) {
  const { allowed, loading } = usePermission(
    'stock.adjust',
    { type: 'warehouse', id: warehouseId },
  );

  if (loading) return <ActivityIndicator />;
  if (!allowed) return null;
  return <Button title="Adjust stock" onPress={handleAdjust} />;
}

3. Or use the client imperatively

import { IamClient } from '@padosoft/laravel-iam-react-native';

const decision = await iam.check({
  subject: { type: 'user', id: 'usr_123' },
  application: 'warehouse',
  permission: 'stock.adjust',
  resource: { type: 'warehouse', id: 'wh_milan' },
  context: { amount: 300 },
});

if (!decision.allowed) throw new Error('Forbidden');
if (decision.requiresStepUp) promptStepUp(decision.requiredAal);

Fail-closed: read this

allowed === true alone is not permission. When requiresStepUp is true, the action is only permitted at a higher AAL. The hooks apply isGranted() automatically — they only set allowed: true when the PDP allowed and no step-up is pending.

Provider & Hooks API

<IamProvider client={...} subject={...}>

Prop	Type	Description
client	IamClient	Pre-configured client instance.
subject	Subject	The authenticated user. Hooks use it automatically.
children	ReactNode	Your app tree.

useIam()

Returns { client, subject } from the nearest IamProvider. Throws if no provider is found.

useCan(query: DecisionQuery): PermissionState

Full-control hook — accepts a complete DecisionQuery.

const { allowed, loading, requiresStepUp } = useCan({
  subject: { type: 'user', id: userId },
  permission: 'doc.publish',
  resource: { type: 'document', id: docId },
});

usePermission(permission, resource?, extra?): PermissionState

Convenience hook — reads subject from context, you supply permission and optionally resource.

const { allowed } = usePermission('orders.approve', { type: 'order', id: orderId });

PermissionState

Field	Type	Description
allowed	boolean	true only when PDP granted AND no step-up pending. false while loading.
loading	boolean	true while the check is in flight.
requiresStepUp	boolean	true if a higher AAL is required.

Client API

new IamClient(config)

Option	Default	Description
baseUrl	required	Full API base, e.g. https://iam.example.com/api/iam/v1.
token	—	The user's access token, sent as Authorization: Bearer.
timeoutMs	2000	Per-request timeout in ms.
retries	0	Retries for idempotent network errors (never on 4xx/5xx).
cache	off	{ ttlMs, maxEntries? } in-memory decision cache.
verify	—	{ issuer?, audience?, jwksUri? } defaults for verifyToken.
fetch	globalThis.fetch	Inject a custom fetch (tests, proxies).

Credential model — this is a PUBLIC client (no shared secret)

Unlike the server SDKs (laravel-iam-client, laravel-iam-node, laravel-iam-rust), a mobile app is a public OAuth client: it must never embed a client_secret (anything shipped in an app binary is extractable). So the client-secret rotation / self-fetch feature does not apply here — there is no secret to rotate.

Instead, obtain the token through the Authorization Code + PKCE flow (the user logs in against IAM), keep it short-lived, and refresh it with the refresh token — never with a static secret. Pass the current user access token as token; when it expires, run the refresh/re-auth flow and update the client. See Application credentials & lifecycle (§ public clients).

check(query): Promise<Decision>

POST {baseUrl}/decisions/check. Returns a normalised Decision. Never throws.

can(query): Promise<boolean>

check() reduced to the fail-safe boolean.

listResources(subject, relation): Promise<Resource[]>

ReBAC list-resources. Returns [] on any error.

verifyToken(jwt, options?): Promise<Claims>

Verifies an ES256 token against the server JWKS. Rejects with TokenVerificationError on any failure.

Managing permissions/roles? Not here — this SDK is a consumer

This package consumes decisions (it asks "can this subject do X?"); it does not own a permission catalog and does not declare or push manifests. A mobile/public client has no server-side catalog to sync. Permissions and roles are declared by the service that owns them (a Laravel app with the bridge, or a Node/Rust service, or the console) and synced there. See Keeping IAM in sync.

Ecosystem

Package	Runtime	Description	Docs
laravel-iam-server	PHP/Laravel	The IAM server — the PDP itself (RBAC + ABAC + ReBAC, OAuth/OIDC, audit)	docs
@padosoft/laravel-iam-node	Node 18+	Core TypeScript/Node SDK — this package builds on its wire types	docs
@padosoft/laravel-iam-react-native	React Native / React	This package	docs
padosoft/laravel-iam-client	PHP 8.1+	PHP client — the wire-contract reference	docs
laravel-iam-rust	Rust	Rust client SDK (crate laravel-iam), async + blocking	docs

License

MIT (c) Padosoft