Stytch Netlify example application

Overview

This example application demonstrates how one may use Stytch within a Next.js application running on Netlify.

This project uses Stytch's Next.js SDK which provides pre-built UI components, useful React hooks, headless methods to securely interact with Stytch, and is SSR friendly. This project also utilizes Stytch's Node Backend SDK for authenticating the logged in user's session.

This application features Email Magic Links and Google OAuth authentication. You can use this application's source code as a learning resource, or use it as a jumping off point for your own project. We are excited to see what you build with Stytch!

Set up

Follow the steps below to get this application fully functional and running using your own Stytch credentials.

In the Stytch Dashboard

Create a Stytch account. Once your account is set up a Project called "My first project" will be automatically created for you.
Within your new Project, navigate to Frontend SDKs, and make the following changes:
- Click Enable SDK.
- Under Authorized applications add the domain http://localhost:8888.
Navigate to Redirect URLs, and add http://localhost:8888/authenticate as the types Login and Sign-up.
Navigate to OAuth, and set up login for Google in the Test environment. Follow all the instructions provided in the Dashboard. If you are not interested in OAuth login you can skip this step. However, the Continue with Google button in this application will not work.
Finally, navigate to API Keys. You will need the project_id, secret, and public_token values found on this page later on.

Running the app

In your terminal clone the project and install dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/stytchauth/stytch-netlify-example
cd stytch-netlify-example
npm i
npm install netlify-cli -g

Next, create .env.local file by running the command below which copies the contents of .env.template. If you'd like to run the app via Netlify instead of locally, you can skip this step and head straight to the Running the app on Netlify section.

cp .env.template .env.local

Open .env.local in the text editor of your choice, and set the environment variables using the project_id, secret, and public_token found on API Keys. Leave the STYTCH_PROJECT_ENV value as test.

# This is what a completed .env.local file will look like
STYTCH_PROJECT_ENV=test
STYTCH_PROJECT_ID=project-test-00000000-0000-1234-abcd-abcdef1234
NEXT_PUBLIC_STYTCH_PUBLIC_TOKEN=public-token-test-abcd123-0000-0000-abcd-1234567abc
STYTCH_SECRET=secret-test-12345678901234567890abcdabcd

Running the app on Netlify

Click the button below to deploy this application to Netlify. This will create a new Netlify site and deploy the application to it. You will be prompted to enter your Stytch API Keys.

Note, you'll need to add your Netlify's site domain to the Redirect URLs, e.g. https://main--wonderful-salmiakki-f95458.netlify.app/authenticate, and Authorized applications in your Stytch Dashboard, e.g. https://main--wonderful-salmiakki-f95458.netlify.app.

Running the app locally

If you want to run the app locally, the app may be run with the command:

netlify dev

The application will be available at http://localhost:8888.

You'll be able to login with Email Magic Links or Google OAuth and see your Stytch User object, Stytch Session, and see how logging out works.

Next steps

This example app showcases a small portion of what you can accomplish with Stytch. Here are a few ideas to explore:

Add additional login methods like Passwords.
Replace the prebuilt UI with your own using by using the SDK's headless methods.
Replace the Google OAuth button with the high converting Google One Tap UI.
Secure your app further by building MFA authentication using methods like WebAuthn.

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