Why is the Pipedream Connect Frontend Client Throwing a 'Connect Account Popup Blocked' Error and Failing to Update the Parent After Completing the OAuth Flow?

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Hey team,
I’m running into an issue with the Pipedream Connect frontend client.

• When I trigger Connect through the injected iframe, the popup does open, but the SDK still throws a connect account popup blocked error.
• Because of this, completing the OAuth flow in the popup doesn’t propagate any updates back to the modal / parent.
• If I bypass the iframe and open the Connect URL directly via browser.open, the flow completes, but that leads to awkward nested popups.
Creating the client:

const pipedream = createFrontendClient({
    externalUserId: orgId,
    tokenCallback,
});

Calling the client:

const handleConnectService = () => {
        pipedream?.connectAccount({
            app: nameSlug,
            onSuccess: (res) => {
                console.log(res);
            },
            onError: (err) => {
                console.log(err);
            },
            onClose: (status) => {
                console.log(status);
            },
        });
    };

Thanks!

2

Hello , I couldn’t reproduce the behavior from your information.

Pipedream has a Connect Demo site here with example config and code for you to follow to implement your own solution. I believe it should be a helpful guide for you.

3

This quickstart might be even simpler, it highlights just the auth flow: pipedream-connect-examples/managed-auth-basic-next-app at master · PipedreamHQ/pipedream-connect-examples · GitHub

4

Thanks both!

Took me way to long to figure this out, but I just needed to change my cross-origin-opener-policy from same-origin to same-origin-allow-popups

5

Good catch, seems like it’s maybe worth flagging that in our docs!

6

I’ve created a PR here to flag this on Pipedream Connect docs: Improve Pipedream Connect docs to add solution for the Pipedream Connect popup not opening by vunguyenhung · Pull Request #18179 · PipedreamHQ/pipedream · GitHub

7

Ah thank you Leo, but the actually the docs moved to a new repo! (I have a PR open to remove /docs-v2 from the pipedream repo — sorry about that!)

8

Will ping you separately