React CAPTCHA

Protect your React web application from spam and bot attacks with invisible CAPTCHA technology. The Friendly Captcha React library offers both frontend and backend features for comprehensive bot protection. The CAPTCHA widget integrates seamlessly into your React forms and runs fully automatically in the background. Your users don’t have to select images or solve puzzles – the bot protection works invisibly while you retain full control over your application’s security.

Why Choose Friendly Captcha for React?

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User-Friendly

Friendly Captcha does not require any tasks from your users. It runs automatically in the background.

Fully Accessible

Don’t lock out your real users. Friendly Captcha is fully accessible and officially certified as WCAG 2.2 AA compliant gold standard.

Privacy-First

Friendly Captcha protects your users’ privacy and is compliant with GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, and more.

Easy to Integrate

The Friendly Captcha library includes a React Hook and verification handler with TypeScript support.

Protect Your React App Against Threats

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React powers your frontend with component-based architecture and declarative UI patterns. Form spam, fake registrations, and bot submissions undermine your application’s integrity.

Friendly Captcha integrates natively into React component workflows. Import the library into your form components. The hook manages widget lifecycle and state automatically. On the backend, use the included verification function to validate CAPTCHA puzzle solutions via the Friendly Captcha API. Clean, React-idiomatic bot protection without prop drilling or context complexity.

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How the React CAPTCHA Integration Works

1.

Create a Friendly Captcha account

Create your Friendly Captcha account for free to get started with React CAPTCHA integration. Pick a plan that fits your needs and enjoy a 30-day free trial.

2.

Log in and create an application

Create an application in the Friendly Captcha dashboard to get a sitekey for your React integration, as shown in the screenshot below.

3.

Create an API key for your application

Create an API key in the Friendly Captcha dashboard, as shown in the screenshot below.

Please make sure to copy and save the API key as you can only access it once.

4.

Install the Friendly Captcha library in React

Get the Friendly Captcha library for React and install it.

5.

Connect Friendly Captcha with React

To finish the CAPTCHA integration, access the Friendly Captcha library settings in React and paste the sitekey generated in step 2 and the API key generated in step 3 into the respective fields.

Your React application is protected with Friendly Captcha.

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FAQ

A React CAPTCHA is a bot protection solution embedded in React applications that helps confirm that user interactions are coming from real people and not automated bots. It secures forms and data submissions in your React Native applications by filtering out illegitimate requests and spam, contributing to a more secure React application environment. Modern CAPTCHA providers like Friendly Captcha are completely invisible and provide robust protection. Traditional CAPTCHAs, on the other hand, either collect too much personal user data (Google invisible reCAPTCHA) or annoy users with image recognition challenges (Google reCAPTCHA).

Friendly Captcha for React JS works by challenging the user’s device with cryptographic puzzles in the background. This proof-of-work approach is truly invisible and offers no intrusion to your users. It is therefore fully accessible and WCAG compliant.

The best CAPTCHA for React JS is Friendly Captcha. The European CAPTCHA provider scores highly compared to Google reCAPTCHA in terms of privacy compliance, data protection, accessibility and user friendliness. You can find out more about the advantages of Friendly Captcha.

Yes, developers are advised to use a CAPTCHA for their React project. As a security measure, a React CAPTCHA helps protect websites. It is mandatory as soon as there are login pages, registration, payment processes or sensitive information in the React application. Modern CAPTCHA providers such as Friendly Captcha are particularly user-friendly and check users invisibly in the background.

With a React CAPTCHA, you can protect your React projects from bots and automated spam attacks. Modern CAPTCHA providers use invisible tests that do not bother users. Friendly Captcha is the pioneer of user friendly CAPTCHA protection. At the same time, Friendly Captcha adheres to international data protection laws and does not store any user data.

Integrating Friendly Captcha into your React project has 3 steps and usually takes around 10 minutes to complete. Get started by creating a sitekey and secret key, installing the widget, and verifying the response. After that, you need to configure the SDK. Follow the server side validation, authentication and endpoints to finish the seamless integration of Friendly Captcha into your React project.

Yes, with modern CAPTCHA solutions like Friendly Captcha, a React CAPTCHA is accessible to all users. By managing the verification process in the background, it avoids complex visual or audio challenges, ensuring that users with disabilities can interact with your React Native application without unnecessary hurdles.

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