Authentication Methods

TurboStack supports two different authenticaiton methods:

Magic Link - Perform login through a passwordless email confirmation. (Default)
OAuth - Perform a login through a list of OAuth providers.

To get things started, add this to your .env.local: (skip if you already did it)

NEXTAUTH_URL=http://app.localhost:3000
NEXTAUTH_SECRET={{random_uuid}}

This is the easiest method and enabled by default:

This is the easiest method and enabled by default:

NextAuth have a list of providers available to setup, in this tutorial, we will instruct you through Google’s integration.

Go to the Google Developer Console.
Create or select an existing project.
On the sidebar, navigate to APIs & Services → Credentials.
Click on Create Credentials and select OAuth 2.0 Client IDs.
Choose Web application as the application type.
Set up your Authorized redirect URIs. In development, this will be: http://app.localhost:3000. In production, if your host are myapp.com, this will be https://app.myapp.com
Save the credentials, and you’ll get a Client ID and Client Secret, add them in your .env.local file.

GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID={{YOUR_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID}}
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET={{YOUR_GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET}}

You’re ready to go.