General

This document explains how to integrate the verification flow directly from your web application through our JavaScript component to verify the identity of your users. This stage might be at the signup page of your application, or at a later point to enrich the profiles of your users. The guide assumes the preliminary steps have already been completed as explained in the initial setup section of the documentation.

We suggest you follow our best practice how to integrate Passbase in your wider system in the overview section.

1. Install the Package

Start by installing our component and its dependencies in your Angular project:

$ npm i --save @passbase/button

$ yarn add @passbase/button

2. Render the Component

Import the Angular component from the newly installed npm package. The package supports UMD modules, the ES import method is presented below.

src/app/app.component.ts
import Passbase from "@passbase/button";

Place the new HTML element where you want the component to render inside your application:

src/app/app.component.html
<div #passbaseButton></div>

In order for the button to render correctly, you'll need to pass your apiKey as an argument to the rendering function. Optionally you can also pass in different handler functions like e.g. the onFinish, onStart, or onError method to handle different events of the button flow.

src/app/app.component.ts
import Passbase from '@passbase/button';
import { Component, ViewChild, ElementRef, AfterViewInit } from '@angular/core';
​
export class AppComponent implements AfterViewInit {
​
  @ViewChild("passbaseButton") passbaseButton: ElementRef;
​
  ngAfterViewInit() {
    Passbase.renderButton(
      this.passbaseButton.nativeElement, 
      "YOUR_API_KEY",
      {
        onFinish: (identityAccessKey) => {},
        onSubmitted: (identityAccessKey) => {},
        onError: (errorCode) => {},
        onStart: () => {}
      }
    )
  }
}

The button should now render as shown here:

Speed Up the Verification Flow

During the verification flow, your users will be asked to provide some information which you might already have in your application e.g. the user's email. In this case, you can use the prefillAttributes object to skip the email step.

Passbase.renderButton(
  this.passbaseButton.nativeElement, 
  "YOUR_API_KEY",
  {
    onFinish: (identityAccessKey) => {},
    prefillAttributes: {
          email: "[email protected]",
          country: "de"
    }
  }
)

Identity Access Key as Reference

In order for your application to interoperate with Passbase, you will need to add a reference to your users once the Verification is completed.

For that, you will need to keep track of the identityAccessKey returned by the onFinish or onSubmitted callbacks and associate it in your backend with your end users' id. We recommend saving this key after the onSubmitted method from your user's completed verification, or listen for the incoming webhooks to make a call to the Passbase API linking back the email address of the user.

const onSubmitted = (identityAccessKey) => {
  console.log(identityAccessKey)
  // Make a request to your backend/db and save the key to your user's profile
}
​
Passbase.renderButton(element, apiKey, { onSubmitted })

MetaData for additional User References

If you are tracking end users in your backend through an internal UUID, transaction number, stripe ID, etc., you can use the metaData object to securely pass encrypted end user information to identify completed verifications.

The metaData object allows you to pass an encrypted JSON string via a private key encoded in base64 on the client-side, and then Passbase will use your public key to return the data on the Passbase API.

Add Encryption Key to your Project

Encryption should be completed on the server-side. Once you have completed the encryption, please enter the public encryption keys for each individual project within the developer dashboard.

​Click here to view metaData encryption documentation.

Pass metaData Object

After adding the public encryption keys within the developer dashboard, you will need to pass the private key encoded in base64 to Passbase through the client-side.

const onSubmit = (identityAccessKey) => {
  console.log(identityAccessKey)
  // Make a request to your backend/db and save the key to your user's profile
}
​
Passbase.renderButton(
  this.passbaseButton.nativeElement, 
  "YOUR_API_KEY",
  {
    onSubmitted: (identityAccessKey) => {},
    onFinish: (identityAccessKey) => {
    // Open new window for end user to prevent duplicate verifications
      window.location.href =("https://passbase.com/")
    },
    prefillAttributes: {
          email: "[email protected]",
          country: "de"
    },
    // Signed and Armored Metadata, which contain {"email": "[email protected]", "country": "de", ...}
    metaData: {
          "AJIZZDIZJADIOAJDOIZJAOIZJDOIAJIODZJIAJDIOZJAIOZDJALANLIKESJIZZOIZDJAOIZJDOZIAJDOIAZJDAZD"
    }
  }
)

Retrieve MetaData from Passbase API

After a user completes a verification and you receive the VERIFICATION_REVIEWED webhook event, it is time to call the Passbase Get Identity endpoint. Using this API endpoint, you will see the new metaData object returned.

If the public encryption key is not added to the developer dashboard, you will not see the metaData information returned on the API.

{
   id: "1234-1234-1234-1234",
   resources: [...],
   metadata: { internal_customer_id: "XYZ" }
}

3. UI Customizations

Appearance

Our component currently supports a set of customization options which will influence the appearance of the modal, once opened. The preferred way to customize this is via the developer dashboard's customization section.

Here you can choose amongst a variety of colors, fonts, accepted countries & much more.

The modal also supports a darkMode attribute, which supersedes the effects of any customization selected within the developer dashboard. This is especially useful if your App has a dark UI or you simply want to spare your users' eyes at night. You can activate the darkmode via the theme attribute.

Passbase.renderButton(
  this.passbaseButton.nativeElement, 
  "YOUR_API_KEY",
  {
    onFinish: (identityAccessKey) => {},
    theme: {
        darkMode: true,
        systemDarkMode: true
    }
  }
)

Language

We support a variety of different languages for the verification flow. As of this writing more than 10 including (English, Spanish, German & many more). If one is missing and you want us to add support for it, please reach out to our customer support.

The Verification flow automatically detects the language of the user's browser settings. If we support the language, the verification flow will be set to it. Otherwise the default is English.

Wrap-up & Example

If you've followed this integration guide, you have successfully integrated Passbase in your Website. You can also check out the code below that shows a working example and compare it with your own solution. To run the code press the Open Sandbox button in the lower right corner.

You can find this code inside a fully working Angular application in our Github repositories.​