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Build a Note-Taking App With Google Authentication in Next.js
Implement Google OAuth in your Next.js app with NextAuth.js
In this article, we will learn the following:
- Using NextAuth.js with Next.js.
- Third-party Google authentication With NextAuth.js.
- Maintaining a relationship between the Users and the Notes tables.
- Performing CRUD operations on our database to read and write notes.
Introduction
So you have built an awesome blog with Next.js that attracts millions of users every day. To earn income from your writing, you get the idea to lock the articles behind a paywall. That way, readers can support you. To implement such an idea, you would need to perform the following steps:
- Build a login system.
- Check if the logged-in user has subscribed to your website.
- If they are a paying member, let them proceed to enjoy your content.
- On the other hand, if a visitor has not logged in, prompt them to make an account or log in.
However, let’s face it: Authentication is a pain. It requires a ton of code, and in some cases, maintenance is a hassle.
This is where Next-Auth.js comes in. Not only does it make the process of building user authentication simpler, but it also has the following benefits:
- Cookies: In Passport, if you restarted your server, you would get logged out automatically. In Next-Auth.js, this is not a problem since it already uses cookies to store session data.
- Extremely secure: Next-Auth.js actively promotes password-less sign-in options. Furthermore, it uses CSRF tokens in its code to ensure that your project stays free of exploits and other loopholes.
Now it’s time to code!
Project Setup
Initialization of repository
This step is fairly straightforward. To instantiate your Next.js project, run the following terminal command:
Next, create a .env.local file in the root of your project like so:
