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Hi Everyone, i am studying payload and i would like to propose it to my clients, we are a software house based in Milan, Italy. One thing that is not super clear to me is how to handle auth users calling the cms apis from my nextjs frontend: suppose my client has a dedicated server for managing users and authentication, from nextjs users signup/login using email or social providers and then i have a nextauth session containing the user info. Now how do i combine this with the payload jwt token? I am thinking something like: when a user signup/login, i check if there exist a user with that email in the user collection, if so i (force) login (serverside) to payloadcms with that user and a fixed secret password so that i return the jwt token to pass in future apis against the cms. If the user does not exist then i create a new doc in my user collection and then login. What do you think? Do you have better approaches? Or maybe i am missing something… thanks 🙂
We have a blog post that goes into details on how to use auth with Payload for a Next.js app that should help answer your question:
https://payloadcms.com/blog/nextjs-payload-cms-authThere are 2 accompanying repos:
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https://github.com/payloadcms/next-auth-frontend-
https://github.com/payloadcms/next-auth-cmsThanks for the replies. After rereading the doc i understood that i should add more strategies from passport.js - this answer from a reddit user suggests the same:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PayloadCMS/comments/zevwpi/questions_on_switching_from_strapi_to_payload/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1
hello everyone, Could anyone use it for authentication with Firebase? Since I already have an existing project and also custom claims, and I would like to use the same token for payloadCMS, I could add the data needed for payload inside the token if necessary
Any updates with using next-auth@beta (authjs v5) with payloadcms?
I am on payload v3.5x, ended up making an OIDC connector for payload.
is it opensource?
No
can tell you about it though
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