Avoid keycloak default login page and use project login page

Question

I am working on creating an angular.js web application and looking for how to integrate keycloak into the project. I have read and watched many tutorials and I see that most of them have users logging/registering through the default login page of keycloak which then redirects to the app.

I have designed my own login and registration page which I want to use. How do I use them instead of keycloak default. Are there any API that I can call or may be my backend would do that? I also read there are spring adapters available for keycloak, can I use them ? Any link to any example would be good.

The second question I have is while registering can I add more user details like address, dob, gender in keycloak? Because my registration page requires those information.

Answer 1

3 steps:

1. In the keycloak/themes/ directory create folder with name eg. myTheme.

2. In the myTheme folder place your custom login page

   (the structure must be same as base or keycloak themes, my advice is to copy the base theme, rename it and customize it).

3. Go to the admin console of keycloak into Realm Settings > Themes > Login Theme and select myTheme.

Answer 2

Expanding on the API roles

POST to your/keycloak/url/auth/realms/master/protocol/openid-connect/token

with data:

{      client_id : 'Id_of_your_client',      username : 'your_username',     password : '@#$%^&',     grant_type : "password"  } 

will give you the initial access token and refresh token

and

POST to the same URL with

data:

{      client_id : 'Id_of_your_client',     // client_secret : 'optional depending on the type of client',      grant_type : "refresh_token" ,      refresh_token : refresh_token_you_got_earlier   } 

will give the new refresh and access tokens .These tokens are what keycloak checks for authorization/authentication.

You could make your own login and send the credentials to keycloak via a REST API and once you have the access token , just put it in the header of any ongoing request to a keycloak protected resource as

headers :{    Authorization : 'Bearer ' +  access_token_you_got  }