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Authentication: Email verification

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Authentication: Email verification

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Welcome! In this session, we're going to implement e-mail verification as part of our sign-up flow. Now, this is a really important step to ensure we're dealing with legitimate users who have valid e-mail addresses. It's going to help us keep spam to a minimum, cut down on fake accounts, and give us a dependable way to stay in touch with our user base. So let's jump right in and get started. Moving to route.js, inside our verify e-mail folder. Now let's set up the API endpoint that will handle the verification link clicked by the user. I start by importing our database setup utility, db. I've then defined an asynchronous function named get. By exporting a function with this name, I'm telling Next.js that this function should handle any HTTP GET requests made to this endpoint. This is perfect for our use case, as clicking a link in an e-mail always triggers a GET request. The function accepts a request object which contains all the details of the incoming request. Okay, let's start…

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