Dummy mode

UserKit lets you use a core set of features with a dummy app-id and key:

Dummy app-id: "dummy"
Dummy secret-key: "dummy.dummy"

This can be useful for running integration or unit tests, or running a shared project in a development environment where sharing a secret key isn't an option.

Use the dummy app-id and secret-key anywhere in your code that you would normally use a UserKit app id or secret key.

Logging in a dummy user

Logging in will result in a dummy user with a username matching whatever username you enter at login.

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Note: User sign-up doesn't work in dummy-mode. Instead, use the login widget form or endpoint with any valid username, and "password" as the password. This will result in a dummy user matching the username you entered.

To login a dummy user

Only username/password login is supported in dummy mode.

Enter any valid username in the username field.
Enter "password" in the password field. Any other password will result in login failure.

This will result in a dummy user with the following properties:


`username`	Whatever username you entered during login
`email`	`<username>@example.com`
`name`	Username with upper-cased first letter. For example: "user1" would result in a name of "User1".
`id`	`"dummy_usr__<username>"`

Fetching a dummy user via UserKit's server API

From your server, you can use the UserKit server API to fetch a dummy user by using a valid dummy user-id that looks like this: dummy_usr__<username>.

This will return a user object with matching username, just like when logging in a dummy-user.