A clean, modern and simple React wrapper for Google reCAPTCHA.

I've been using other React wrappers for reCAPTCHA like react-recaptcha or react-google-recaptcha but unfortunately both of them provide a non-react way (declaring the callbacks outside React components, not inside them) to handle all the reCAPTCHA callbacks which didn't feel clean and I didn't like this approach personally.

This is why I've decided to give it a try to create a cleaner approach and this is the result.

• All callbacks in your React component
• Automatic reCAPTCHA script injection and cleanup
• Usable with multiple reCAPTCHA instances
• Full control over every reCAPTCHA instance
• reCAPTCHA instance methods with promises and clean error messages
• SSR ready

Just install the package with npm:

npm install --save reaptcha

or with yarn:

yarn add reaptcha

IMPORTANT NOTE: Reaptcha injects reCAPTCHA script into DOM automatically by default. If you are doing it manually, check out this description.

First of all, you'll need a reCAPTCHA API key. To find out how to get it - check this guide.

To see how Reaptcha actually works, visit the example page.

If you'd also like to see the code for the example, it is right here.

By default Reaptcha injects the reCAPTCHA script into your head DOM element and renders a I'm a robot captcha.

Here's a quick example how can you use Reaptcha to verify your form submission:

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import Reaptcha from 'reaptcha';

class MyForm extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      verified: false
    };
  }

  onVerify = () => {
    this.setState({
      verified: true
    });
  };

  render() {
    return (
      <form>
        <Reaptcha sitekey="YOUR_API_KEY" onVerify={this.onVerify} />
        <button type="submit" disabled={!this.state.verified}>
          Submit
        </button>
      </form>
    );
  }
}

In order to render Reaptcha explicitly, you need to pass the explicit prop, store the reference to the instance and call the renderExplicitly function manually.

Caution! In order to prevent race-conditions, make sure you render the reCAPTCHA after the script successfuly loads. To do that, pass a function the the onLoad prop where you'll get informed that everything is ready to render.

Here's an example:

import React, { Fragment, Component } from 'react';
import Reaptcha from 'reaptcha';

class MyForm extends Component {
  constructor(props: Props) {
    super(props);
    this.captcha = null;
    this.state = {
      captchaReady: false
    };
  }

  onLoad = () => {
    this.setState({
      captchaReady: true
    });
  };

  onVerify = () => {
    // Do something
  };

  render() {
    return (
      <Fragment>
        <Reaptcha
          ref={e => (this.captcha = e)}
          sitekey="YOUR_API_KEY"
          onLoad={this.onLoad}
          onVerify={this.onVerify}
          explicit
        />
        <button
          onClick={() => {
            this.captcha.renderExplicitly();
          }}
          disabled={this.state.recaptchaReady}
        >
          Render reCAPTCHA
        </button>
      </Fragment>
    );
  }
}

When you want to have an invisible reCAPTCHA, you'll have to execute it manually (as user won't have any possibility to do it). This can be done similarly to explicit rendering - saving the reference to the Reaptcha instance and call the execute method on it.

Additionally, invisible reCAPTCHA can be of course also rendered automatically or explicitly - this is your choice and the reference how to do it is right above.

import React, { Fragment, Component } from 'react';
import Reaptcha from 'reaptcha';

class MyForm extends Component {
  constructor(props: Props) {
    super(props);
    this.captcha = null;
  }

  onVerify = () => {
    // Do something
  };

  render() {
    return (
      <Fragment>
        <Reaptcha
          ref={e => (this.captcha = e)}
          sitekey="YOUR_API_KEY"
          onVerify={this.onVerify}
          size="invisible"
        />
        <button
          onClick={() => {
            this.captcha.execute();
          }}
        >
          Execute reCAPTCHA
        </button>
      </Fragment>
    );
  }
}

You can also manually reset your reCAPTCHA instance. It's similar to executing it:

<Fragment>
  <Reaptcha
    ref={e => (this.captcha = e)}
    sitekey="YOUR_API_KEY"
    onVerify={() => {
      // Do something
    }}
  />
  <button onClick={() => this.captcha.reset()}>Reset</button>
</Fragment>

It's known that calling methods of a React component class is a really bad practice, but as we're doing something uncommon to typical React components - it's the only method that popped in that actually is intuitive and React-ish.

So to get access to the methods, just save the reference to the component instance:

<Reaptcha ref={e => (this.captcha = e)} />

If you have an idea how to do this better, feel free to file an issue to discuss it!

Available and usable Reaptcha instance methods:

Reaptcha allows to customize your reCAPTCHA instances with any available properties documented in the reCAPTCHA docs for all of the types:

• I'm a robot
• Invisible

There are props that are size-specific and some of the props are not available for all of the sizes. Although if you will pass these props nothing bad will happen, they will just be ignored.

The size-exclusive props are:

• I'm a robot: theme
• Invisible: badge, isolated

If you want to attach the reCAPTCHA script manually to the DOM, simply pass the inject prop as false, like this:

<Reaptcha {...props} inject={false} />

This way Reaptcha won't inject the scripts by itself and won't break because of multiple reCAPTCHA scripts attached.