Password Reset

user password reset for react introduction it’s a fact that as soon as you introduce passwords into a system, users will forget them in such cases, the parse library provides a way to let them securely reset their password as with email verification, parse already has an implementation ready for this, parse user requestpasswordemail parse user requestpasswordemail by using this method, parse will handle all aspects of password resetting for you seamlessly prerequisites to complete this tutorial, you will need a react app created and connected to back4app complete the previous guide so you can have a better understanding of the parse user class and the parse user login method https //www back4app com/docs/react/working with users/react user login if you want to test/use the screen layout provided by this guide, you should set up the ant design ant design library goal to add a user password reset feature to a react app using parse 1 customizing password reset emails before calling the parse user requestpasswordemail parse user requestpasswordemail method, you can customize the message that your user will get after requesting a password reset log in to your parse app dashboard, go to settings >verification emails and change your password reset email subject or message ensure that your user will receive an email containing clear instructions and indicating that it is indeed from your application 2 using requestpasswordemail calling the parse user requestpasswordemail parse user requestpasswordemail method only requires your user account email as a parameter, so go ahead and add the following function to your password reset component remember to add a text input for your user email to your component javascript 1 const dorequestpasswordreset = async function () { 2 // note that this value come from state variables linked to your text input 3 const emailvalue = email; 4 try { 5 await parse user requestpasswordreset(emailvalue); 6 alert(`success! please check ${email} to proceed with password reset `); 7 return true; 8 } catch(error) { 9 // error can be caused by lack of internet connection 10 alert(`error! ${error}`); 11 return false; 12 } 13 };1 const dorequestpasswordreset = async function () promise\<boolean> { 2 // note that this value come from state variables linked to your text input 3 const emailvalue string = email; 4 try { 5 await parse user requestpasswordreset(emailvalue); 6 alert(`success! please check ${email} to proceed with password reset `); 7 return true; 8 } catch(error any) { 9 // error can be caused by lack of internet connection 10 alert(`error! ${error}`); 11 return false; 12 } 13 }; go ahead and test your component after requesting a password reset email, you should have received the email, so check your inbox note that the message will contain any changes you had set up before in your parse dashboard the password reset form will look like this that’s it, after changing the password in this form, your user will be able to log in again to your application 3 creating a password request component as said before, you should create a component containing the function shown on step 2 and also a text input field for your user account email to enable password reset in your app here is a complete example of this component you can plug it in in our previous guide’s user login project if you like userresetpassword js 1 import react, { usestate } from 'react'; 2 import parse from 'parse/dist/parse min js'; 3 import ' /app css'; 4 import { button, divider, input } from 'antd'; 5&#x9; 6 export const userpasswordreset = () => { 7 // state variables 8 const \[email, setemail] = usestate(''); 9&#x9; 10 // functions used by the screen components 11 const dorequestpasswordreset = async function () { 12 // note that this value come from state variables linked to your text input 13 const emailvalue = email; 14 try { 15 await parse user requestpasswordreset(emailvalue); 16 alert(`success! please check ${email} to proceed with password reset `); 17 return true; 18 } catch (error) { 19 // error can be caused by lack of internet connection 20 alert(`error! ${error}`); 21 return false; 22 } 23 }; 24&#x9; 25 return ( 26 \<div> 27 \<div classname="header"> 28 \<img 29 classname="header logo" 30 alt="back4app logo" 31 src={ 32 'https //blog back4app com/wp content/uploads/2019/05/back4app white logo 500px png' 33 } 34 /> 35 \<p classname="header text bold">{'react on back4app'}\</p> 36 \<p classname="header text">{'user password reset'}\</p> 37 \</div> 38 \<div classname="container"> 39 \<h2 classname="heading">{'request password reset email'}\</h2> 40 \<divider /> 41 \<div classname="form wrapper"> 42 \<input 43 value={email} 44 onchange={(event) => setemail(event target value)} 45 placeholder="your account email" 46 size="large" 47 classname="form input" 48 /> 49 \</div> 50 \<div classname="form buttons"> 51 \<button 52 onclick={() => dorequestpasswordreset()} 53 type="primary" 54 classname="form button" 55 color={'#208aec'} 56 size="large" 57 > 58 request password reset 59 \</button> 60 \</div> 61 \</div> 62 \</div> 63 ); 64 }; userresetpassword tsx 1 import react, { usestate, fc, reactelement } from 'react'; 2 import ' /app css'; 3 import { button, divider, input } from 'antd'; 4 const parse = require('parse/dist/parse min js'); 5&#x9; 6 export const userpasswordreset fc<{}> = () reactelement => { 7 // state variables 8 const \[email, setemail] = usestate(''); 9&#x9; 10 // functions used by the screen components 11 const dorequestpasswordreset = async function () promise\<boolean> { 12 // note that this value come from state variables linked to your text input 13 const emailvalue string = email; 14 try { 15 await parse user requestpasswordreset(emailvalue); 16 alert(`success! please check ${email} to proceed with password reset `); 17 return true; 18 } catch(error any) { 19 // error can be caused by lack of internet connection 20 alert(`error! ${error}`); 21 return false; 22 } 23 }; 24&#x9; 25 return ( 26 \<div> 27 \<div classname="header"> 28 \<img 29 classname="header logo" 30 alt="back4app logo" 31 src={ 32 'https //blog back4app com/wp content/uploads/2019/05/back4app white logo 500px png' 33 } 34 /> 35 \<p classname="header text bold">{'react on back4app'}\</p> 36 \<p classname="header text">{'user password reset'}\</p> 37 \</div> 38 \<div classname="container"> 39 \<h2 classname="heading">{'request password reset email'}\</h2> 40 \<divider /> 41 \<div classname="form wrapper"> 42 \<input 43 value={email} 44 onchange={(event) => setemail(event target value)} 45 placeholder="your account email" 46 size="large" 47 classname="form input" 48 /> 49 \</div> 50 \<div classname="form buttons"> 51 \<button 52 onclick={() => dorequestpasswordreset()} 53 type="primary" 54 classname="form button" 55 color={'#208aec'} 56 size="large" 57 > 58 request password reset 59 \</button> 60 \</div> 61 \</div> 62 \</div> 63 ); 64 }; add these classes to your app css app css file to fully render the component layout elements app css 1 @import ' antd/dist/antd css'; 2&#x9; 3 app { 4 text align center; 5 } 6&#x9; 7 html { 8 box sizing border box; 9 outline none; 10 overflow auto; 11 } 12&#x9; 13 , 14 before, 15 after { 16 margin 0; 17 padding 0; 18 box sizing inherit; 19 } 20&#x9; 21 h1, 22 h2, 23 h3, 24 h4, 25 h5, 26 h6 { 27 margin 0; 28 font weight bold; 29 } 30&#x9; 31 p { 32 margin 0; 33 } 34&#x9; 35 body { 36 margin 0; 37 background color #fff; 38 } 39&#x9; 40 container { 41 width 100%; 42 max width 500px; 43 margin auto; 44 padding 20px 0; 45 text align left; 46 } 47&#x9; 48 header { 49 align items center; 50 padding 25px 0; 51 background color #208aec; 52 } 53&#x9; 54 header logo { 55 height 55px; 56 margin bottom 20px; 57 object fit contain; 58 } 59&#x9; 60 header text bold { 61 margin bottom 3px; 62 color rgba(255, 255, 255, 0 9); 63 font size 16px; 64 font weight bold; 65 } 66&#x9; 67 header text { 68 color rgba(255, 255, 255, 0 9); 69 font size 15px; 70 } 71&#x9; 72 heading { 73 font size 22px; 74 } 75&#x9; 76 form wrapper { 77 margin top 20px; 78 margin bottom 10px; 79 } 80&#x9; 81 form input { 82 margin bottom 20px; 83 } 84&#x9; 85 form button { 86 width 100%; 87 } this component should render in a screen like this conclusion at the end of this guide, you learned how to allow your parse users to reset their password on react in the next guide, we will show you how to perform useful user queries