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SIDEBAR_REPLACE_DOC_About this recipe

  • About this recipe

Quick setup

  • Frontend
  • Backend
  • Core

    • Self Hosted setup with Docker
    • Self Hosted setup without Docker
    • Managed Service

    Database Setup

    • MySQL
    • PostgreSQL
    • MongoDB
    • Rename database tables

Common customizations

  • Redirect To Auth Screen
  • Sign Out
  • SignUp Form

    • Prerequisite
    • Adding Extra Fields
    • Adding / Modifying field validators
    • Built in providers
    • Custom providers
    • Embed in a page
    • Terms of service & Privacy policy links
    • Show Sign Up by default

    SignIn Form

    • Prerequisite
    • Adding / Modifying field validators
    • Built in providers
    • Custom providers
    • Password managers
    • Embed in a page
  • Post sign up callbacks
  • Post sign in callbacks
  • User Roles

    • Assigning roles to users
    • Assigning roles to a session
    • Reading roles in an API
    • Reading roles in the frontend
    • Updating roles in a session

    Reset Password

    • About
    • Reset Password Email
    • Embed in a page

    Email Verification

    • About
    • Customising the email sent
    • Embed in a page

    Sessions

    • About
    • Storing session data
    • Session Verification in API
    • Revoking a session manually
    • Change session timeout
    • Checking if a session exists on the frontend
    • Get user information on the frontend
    • Fetching sessions for a user
    • Update JWT Payload
    • Update Session Data
    • Cookies and Https
    • Cookie Consent
    • Share sessions across sub domains
    • Anti CSRF
    • Same site cookies
    • JWT Signing key rotation
    • Access token blacklisting
    • Customizing Error Handling

    Styling

    • Changing Colours
    • Changing Style via CSS
    • Themes

    Changing base path

    • Website Base Path
    • API Base Path
  • User Pagination
  • Core

    • Adding API Keys
    • Tuning Performance
    • Logging

    Core CLI

    • Overview
    • Start
    • List
    • Stop
    • Uninstall

NextJS

  • About
  • 1. Configuration
  • 2. Showing Login UI
  • 3. Adding auth APIs
  • 4. Protecting a website route
  • 5. Session verification

    • 5a. Session verification in an API call
    • 5b. Session verification in getServerSideProps
  • 6. Next steps

SIDEBAR_REPLACE_DOC_Serverless Optimisation

  • Running on serverless env

SIDEBAR_REPLACE_DOC_SDKs API Reference

  • SDKs API Reference

Managed Service

Creating a development environment โœจ

  • First, please sign up
  • Select a region and follow the guided steps until you see a dashboard like:

Connecting the backend SDK with SuperTokens ๐Ÿ”Œ

  • Click on the blue "Connect" button, and you will see:
  • The popup shows the ConnectionURI and the apiKey. These will go in the supertokens object in the init function on your backend:
NodeJS
let supertokens = require("supertokens-node");

supertokens.init({
supertokens: {
connectionURI: "<CONNECTION URI HERE FROM THE POPUP>",
apiKey: "<API KEY HERE FROM THE POPUP>"
},

appInfo: {...},
recipeList: [...]
});
โ† Self Hosted setup without DockerMySQL โ†’