Architecture overview

The purpose of this guide is to provide a full-detailed overview of the Frontegg customization interface.

Read in this guide about the style architecture and how to integrate your styles into Frontegg. Go over tons of customization examples in our other advanced style customization guides to see what style customization options are available to you.

If you prefer to dive in and start looking at code samples:

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Visit our Frontegg Samples repository in GitHub.

Style Architecture

To know what and how to style, it is important to understand that the Frontegg style architecture is a top-down tree where each level in the tree merges up.

The styles at any given level apply unless overridden by a conflicting style below it on the same branch.

The image below demonstrates this top-down approach.

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The Frontegg style architecture defines some global customization styles that can be applied both on the login-box and admin portal as well as customization styles that you can apply on each and every one of them separately.

The idea is that you can always reach the level of customization you need within the granularity that your application requires.

This top-down approach makes it easy to customize components that share the same design regardless of where the component appears in your application. But it also allows for the precision you need for uniquely styling specific parts of your application.

The FronteggThemeOptions interface is the main interface that controls the entire customization of the Frontegg application.

export interface FronteggThemeOptions {
    palette?: ThemePaletteOptions;
    typographyStyleOptions?: CSSProperties;
    spacing?: SpacingOptions;
    shadows?: Shadows;
    transitions?: TransitionsOptions;
    breakpoints?: BreakpointsOptions;
    direction?: Direction;
    components?: ComponentsOptions;
    typography?: TypographyOptions;
    adminPortal?: AdminPortalThemeOptions;
    loginBox?: LoginBoxThemeOptions;
}

As shown in the snippet above, the top-most level is the global level. A style applied at the global level impacts all Frontegg components unless you explicitly override that style at a lower level.

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Frontegg + Material-UI = 💚

Frontegg base components rely on the great Material UI (as we believe that wheels shouldn't be re-invented). Therefore, some of the links you see below will refer to the documentation of Material UI.


The customization options split into the following (no worries, we will go deeper for each of the components when we slide along this guide).

AttributeDescription
paletteColor palette representing the main colors of the application
typographyStyleOptionsInline CSS representing the font options
spacingStyles for spacing options
shadowsStyles for generic shadow configurations
transitionsDefines generic behaviors for CSS transitions (how fast they go etc.)
breakpointsDefines breakpoints for different resolutions (CSS media like)
directionLeftToRight | RightToLeft
componentsAllows to override ALL of the material-ui components styles we are using such as: MuiAlert, MuiAutocomplete, MuiButton etc.
typographyDefines which fonts to use and which fonts families
loginBoxCustomization options for the Login Box (more info here)
adminPortalCustomization options for the Admin Portal (more info here)

Code Integration and Structure

First, this guide shows you how to integrate the themeOptions object into your code. Then, it explains the structure of the themeOptions object so that you can customize your styles.

Integration

When integrating the Frontegg Provider, pass themeOptions as an initialization attribute. The value for themeOptions needs to be an object containing your custom styles.

For example, here is a simple example that sets the fontFamily at the global level to monospace:

import { FronteggProvider } from "@frontegg/react";

const contextOptions = {
  baseUrl: "https://your-application.frontegg.com",
};

const themeOptions = {
   typographyStyleOptions: {
      fontFamily: 'monospace',
  },
}

ReactDOM.render(
  <FronteggProvider
    contextOptions={contextOptions}
    themeOptions={themeOptions}
  >
    <App />
  </FronteggProvider>,
  document.getElementById("root")
);

The image below shows the result of this code example where the font is monospace:

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Master Object

Your themeOptions object can contain custom styles for all the available levels.

Here is an object containing all levels and their corresponding styling options.


const themeOptions = {
  // Global styles 
  palette: ThemePalette;
  typographyStyleOptions: CSSProperties;
  spacing: Spacing;
  shadows: Shadows;
  transitions: Transitions;
  breakpoints: Breakpoints;
  direction: Direction;
  components: ComponentsOptions;
  typography: Typography;
  
  // Login Box styles 
  loginBox: {
    // Easier way to load predefined themes
    themeName: 'classic' | 'modern' | 'vivid' | 'dark';
    // Specific customization options for the accept invitation page
    acceptInvitation: AcceptInvitationPageTheme;
    // Specific customization options for the activate account page
    activateAccount: ActivateAccountPageTheme;
    // Specific customization options for the forgot password page
    forgotPassword: ForgotPasswordPageTheme;
    // Specific customization options for the reset password page
    resetPassword: ResetPasswordPageTheme;
    // Specific customization options for the login page
    login: LoginPageTheme;
    // Specific customization options for the signup page
    signup: SignupPageTheme;
    // Specific customization options for the social logins section
    socialLogins: SocialLoginsTheme;
    // Specific customization options for the loader of the login box
    loader: LoaderTheme;
   },
       
   // Admin Portal styles 
   adminPortal: {
     palette?: ThemePalette;
     typographyStyleOptions?: Partial<CSSProperties>;
     spacing?: SpacingOptions;
     shadows?: Shadows;
     transitions?: TransitionsOptions;
     breakpoints?: BreakpointsOptions;
     direction?: Direction;
     components?: ComponentsOptions;
     typography?: TypographyOptions;
     layout: {
       fullScreenMode: boolean;
     };
   }
};

You do not need this entire master object in your code. Instead, just include styles for properties where you want to override the default.


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Types of Custom Styles

If you are using typescript, the interface for the style options is exposed and you can easily import it to see what options are available.

import { FronteggAppOptions } from '@frontegg/types';

If you are not using typescript, look in the frontegg package for the frontegg/types folder to see the style options.


Ready to start?

Let's see this in action. Starting from the Login Box Style Customization!

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