This repository shows an example how you could build a NiceGUI web application and use Azure Entra to authenticate your microsoft users.
When I tried deploying my NiceGUI webapp as an Azure Web App I found that adding Entra authentication as an identity provider as a plug-and-play solution to an Azure Web App did not work, as it blocked NiceGUI's websocket communication. This meant I had to resort to adding the authentication flow to the application myself. No doubt this method, the method I came up with, is not the best method. I am open to suggestions and improving it.
This is not a full-fledged repository with proper documentation, it is a bare-minimum effort (with some unnecessary files from a project template) to hopefully help someone else achieve the same. Nevertheless, provided you jumped through all the regular hoops to register an application in Entra and provided the necessary values in the /.env file, the example application is functional.
The example application itself can be found at /nicegui_azure_entra_auth/minimal_nicegui_entra_auth_example.py.
If youwant to run the example, read the following information.
For a detailed description of the tools that this project provides, read /docs/project_tools.md.
Installation instructions for these tools and other prerequisites can be found at /docs/prerequisites_installation_instructions.md.
Simply run task initialise-project to get started. For some more information regarding installation instructions, downloading data and using jupiter, please refer to /docs/project_installation_instructions.md.
Be sure to:
- replace the default values where necessary in the /nicegui_azure_entra_auth.env file.