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NextAuth setup

NextAuth setup - Next.js Tutorial

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NextAuth setup

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All right guys, so now we're going to get set up with NextAuth, which is an open source authentication solution for Next.js, and it's extremely powerful. It's very flexible. There's a lot of different providers, meaning you can log in with Google or GitHub or just a local strategy, which is what we're using, just the email password. There's so many different options, and in turn, there's a lot of configuration that kind of goes into this. There's basically an options object we need to create and add a bunch of stuff to, like our providers, some of the session information, the callbacks that run at certain times, what else, the pages. So we define our sign-in page and so on. So this video will have quite a bit in it, but it's just basic stuff that you can find in the docs. Like I said, we'll be using the credentials strategy, or I'm sorry, credentials provider. So we just need to define some stuff in that options file. And then those options are used in a route that we need to create…

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