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netlify-auth-js
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This is a JS library for Netlify Auth API.
It lets you signup and authenticate users and is a building block for constructing the UI for signups, password recovery, login and logout.
import NetlifyAuth from 'netlify-auth-js'
const auth = new NetlifyAuth({
APIUrl: 'https://auth.netlify.com'
});
auth.signup(username, email).then(
(response) => console.log("Confirmation email sent"),
(error) => console.log("Error during signup: %o", error.msg)
);
auth.confirm(token).then(
(user) => console.log("Logged in as %s", user.email),
(error) => console.log("Failed to log in: %o", error)
);
auth.login(email, password).then(
(user) => console.log("Logged in as %s", user.email),
(error) => console.log("Failed to log in: %o", error);
)
auth.requestPasswordRecovery(email).then(
(response) => console.log("Recovery email sent"),
(error) => console.log("Error sending recovery mail: %o", error)
);
auth.recover(token).then(
(user) => console.log("Logged in as %s", user.email),
(error) => console.log("Failed to verify recover token: %o", error)
);
const user = auth.currentUser()
user.update({email: newEmail, password: newPassword}).then(
(user) => console.log("Updated user"),
(error) => console.log("Failed to update user: %o", error)
);
user.jwt().then(
(token) => console.log("Current token: %s", token),
(error) => console.log("Failed to get token: %o", error)
);
user.logout().then(
(response) => console.log("User logged out"),
(error) => console.log("Failed to logout user: %o", error)
);
FAQs
Netlify Auth API client for JavaScript
We found that netlify-auth-js demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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