User Registration

user registration for react native introduction at the core of many apps, user accounts have a notion that lets users securely access their information parse provides a specialized user class called parse user that automatically handles much of the functionality required for user account management in this guide, you’ll learn how parse user parse user class works by creating a user registration feature for your react native app using parse js sdk prerequisites to complete this tutorial, you will need a react native app created and connected to back4app goal to build a user registration feature using parse for a react native app 1 understanding the signup method parse user management uses the parse user parse user object type, which extends the default parseobject parseobject type while containing unique helper methods, such as current current and getusername getusername , that will help you retrieve user data throughout your app you can read more about the parse user parse user object here at the official documentation https //parseplatform org/parse sdk js/api/2 18 0/parse user html in this guide, you will learn how to use the signup signup method that creates a new valid and unique parse user parse user object both locally and on the server, taking as arguments valid username username and password password values 2 create the user registration component let’s now build the functional component, which will call the signup signup method in our app first, create a new file in your root directory called userregistration js userregistration js ( userregistration tsx userregistration tsx if you are using typescript) and also add the needed input elements ( username username and password password inputs), using state hooks via usestate usestate to manage their data userregistration js 1 import react, { fc, reactelement, usestate } from "react"; 2 import { button, stylesheet, textinput } from "react native"; 3 import parse from "parse/react native"; 4&#x9; 5 export const userregistration = () => { 6 const \[username, setusername] = usestate(""); 7 const \[password, setpassword] = usestate(""); 8&#x9; 9 return ( 10 <> 11 \<textinput 12 style={styles input} 13 value={username} 14 placeholder={"username"} 15 onchangetext={(text) => setusername(text)} 16 autocapitalize={"none"} 17 /> 18 \<textinput 19 style={styles input} 20 value={password} 21 placeholder={"password"} 22 securetextentry 23 onchangetext={(text) => setpassword(text)} 24 /> 25 \<button title={"sign up"} onpress={() => {}} /> 26 \</> 27 ); 28 }; 29&#x9; 30 const styles = stylesheet create({ 31 input { 32 height 40, 33 marginbottom 10, 34 backgroundcolor '#fff', 35 }, 36 }); userregistration tsx 1 import react, { fc, reactelement, usestate } from "react"; 2 import { button, stylesheet, textinput } from "react native"; 3 import parse from "parse/react native"; 4&#x9; 5 export const userregistration fc<{}> = ({}) reactelement => { 6 const \[username, setusername] = usestate(""); 7 const \[password, setpassword] = usestate(""); 8&#x9; 9 return ( 10 <> 11 \<textinput 12 style={styles input} 13 value={username} 14 placeholder={"username"} 15 onchangetext={(text) => setusername(text)} 16 autocapitalize={"none"} 17 /> 18 \<textinput 19 style={styles input} 20 value={password} 21 placeholder={"password"} 22 securetextentry 23 onchangetext={(text) => setpassword(text)} 24 /> 25 \<button title={"sign up"} onpress={() => {}} /> 26 \</> 27 ); 28 }; 29&#x9; 30 const styles = stylesheet create({ 31 input { 32 height 40, 33 marginbottom 10, 34 backgroundcolor '#fff', 35 }, 36 }); 3 create a sign up function you can now create the sign up function that will call the signup signup method javascript 1 const douserregistration = async function () { 2 // note that these values come from state variables that we've declared before 3 const usernamevalue = username; 4 const passwordvalue = password; 5 // since the signup method returns a promise, we need to call it using await 6 return await parse user signup(usernamevalue, passwordvalue) 7 then((createduser) => { 8 // parse user signup returns the already created parseuser object if successful 9 alert alert( 10 'success!', 11 `user ${createduser getusername()} was successfully created!`, 12 ); 13 return true; 14 }) 15 catch((error) => { 16 // signup can fail if any parameter is blank or failed an uniqueness check on the server 17 alert alert('error!', error message); 18 return false; 19 }); 20 };1 const douserregistration = async function () promise\<boolean> { 2 // note that these values come from state variables that we've declared before 3 const usernamevalue string = username; 4 const passwordvalue string = password; 5 // since the signup method returns a promise, we need to call it using await 6 return await parse user signup(usernamevalue, passwordvalue) 7 then((createduser parse user) => { 8 // parse user signup returns the already created parseuser object if successful 9 alert alert( 10 'success!', 11 `user ${createduser getusername()} was successfully created!`, 12 ); 13 return true; 14 }) 15 catch((error object) => { 16 // signup can fail if any parameter is blank or failed an uniqueness check on the server 17 alert alert('error!', error message); 18 return false; 19 }); 20 }; note creating a new user using signup signup also makes it the currently logged in user, so there is no need for your user to log in again to continue using your app insert this function inside the userregistration userregistration component, just before the return return call, to be called and tested remember to update the form’s sign up button onpress onpress action to () => douserregistration() () => douserregistration() and to import alert alert from react native react native your component should now look like this userregistration js 1 import react, { fc, reactelement, usestate } from "react"; 2 import { alert, button, stylesheet, textinput } from "react native"; 3 import parse from "parse/react native"; 4&#x9; 5 export const userregistration = () => { 6 const \[username, setusername] = usestate(""); 7 const \[password, setpassword] = usestate(""); 8&#x9; 9 const douserregistration = async function () { 10 // note that these values come from state variables that we've declared before 11 const usernamevalue = username; 12 const passwordvalue = password; 13 // since the signup method returns a promise, we need to call it using await 14 return await parse user signup(usernamevalue, passwordvalue) 15 then((createduser) => { 16 // parse user signup returns the already created parseuser object if successful 17 alert alert( 18 "success!", 19 `user ${createduser get("username")} was successfully created!` 20 ); 21 return true; 22 }) 23 catch((error) => { 24 // signup can fail if any parameter is blank or failed an uniqueness check on the server 25 alert alert("error!", error message); 26 return false; 27 }); 28 }; 29&#x9; 30 return ( 31 <> 32 \<textinput 33 style={styles input} 34 value={username} 35 placeholder={"username"} 36 onchangetext={(text) => setusername(text)} 37 autocapitalize={"none"} 38 /> 39 \<textinput 40 style={styles input} 41 value={password} 42 placeholder={"password"} 43 securetextentry 44 onchangetext={(text) => setpassword(text)} 45 /> 46 \<button title={"sign up"} onpress={() => douserregistration()} /> 47 \</> 48 ); 49 }; 50&#x9; 51 const styles = stylesheet create({ 52 input { 53 height 40, 54 marginbottom 10, 55 backgroundcolor "#fff", 56 }, 57 }); userregistration tsx 1 import react, { fc, reactelement, usestate } from "react"; 2 import { alert, button, stylesheet, textinput } from "react native"; 3 import parse from "parse/react native"; 4&#x9; 5 export const userregistration fc<{}> = ({}) reactelement => { 6 const \[username, setusername] = usestate(""); 7 const \[password, setpassword] = usestate(""); 8&#x9; 9 const douserregistration = async function () promise\<boolean> { 10 // note that these values come from state variables that we've declared before 11 const usernamevalue string = username; 12 const passwordvalue string = password; 13 // since the signup method returns a promise, we need to call it using await 14 return await parse user signup(usernamevalue, passwordvalue) 15 then((createduser parse user) => { 16 // parse user signup returns the already created parseuser object if successful 17 alert alert( 18 "success!", 19 `user ${createduser get("username")} was successfully created!` 20 ); 21 return true; 22 }) 23 catch((error object) => { 24 // signup can fail if any parameter is blank or failed an uniqueness check on the server 25 alert alert("error!", error message); 26 return false; 27 }); 28 }; 29&#x9; 30 return ( 31 <> 32 \<textinput 33 style={styles input} 34 value={username} 35 placeholder={"username"} 36 onchangetext={(text) => setusername(text)} 37 autocapitalize={"none"} 38 /> 39 \<textinput 40 style={styles input} 41 value={password} 42 placeholder={"password"} 43 securetextentry 44 onchangetext={(text) => setpassword(text)} 45 /> 46 \<button title={"sign up"} onpress={() => douserregistration()} /> 47 \</> 48 ); 49 }; 50&#x9; 51 const styles = stylesheet create({ 52 input { 53 height 40, 54 marginbottom 10, 55 backgroundcolor "#fff", 56 }, 57 }); 4 testing the component the final step is to use our new component inside your react native application app js app js file (or app tsx app tsx if using typescript) app js 1 import { userregistration } from " /userregistration"; 2 / 3 your functions here 4 / 5 return ( 6 <> 7 \<statusbar /> 8 \<safeareaview style={styles container}> 9 <> 10 \<text style={styles title}>react native on back4app\</text> 11 \<text>user registration tutorial\</text> 12 \<userregistration /> 13 \</> 14 \</safeareaview> 15 \</> 16 ); 17&#x9; 18 // remember to add some styles at the end of your file 19 const styles = stylesheet create({ 20 container { 21 flex 1, 22 backgroundcolor "#fff", 23 alignitems "center", 24 justifycontent "center", 25 }, 26 title { 27 fontsize 20, 28 fontweight "bold", 29 }, 30 }); app tsx 1 import { userregistration } from " /userregistration"; 2 / 3 your functions here 4 / 5 return ( 6 <> 7 \<statusbar /> 8 \<safeareaview style={styles container}> 9 <> 10 \<text style={styles title}>react native on back4app\</text> 11 \<text>user registration tutorial\</text> 12 \<userregistration /> 13 \</> 14 \</safeareaview> 15 \</> 16 ); 17&#x9; 18 // remember to add some styles at the end of your file 19 const styles = stylesheet create({ 20 container { 21 flex 1, 22 backgroundcolor "#fff", 23 alignitems "center", 24 justifycontent "center", 25 }, 26 title { 27 fontsize 20, 28 fontweight "bold", 29 }, 30 }); your app now should look like this after providing the desired user credentials, you will see this message after pressing on sign up sign up if everything was successful error handling can be tested if you try to register a user with the same username as before you will get another error if you try to sign up with no password conclusion at the end of this guide, you learned how to register new parse users on react native in the next guide, we will show you how to log in and out users