NextAuth.js is a full-fledged authentication and authorization solution for Next.js designed to work with any OAuth service. To use them in your project, create a file named.env.local in the root of your project directory. This file will contain all the providers that you want to use in your app. Each provider will be configured using the credentials in order for the app to successfully connect with our OAuth identity provider.

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Authentication vs. authorization in Next.jsIntroducing our user authorization project in Next.jsOver 200k developers use LogRocket to create better digital experiencesCreate a Next.js appCreate a GitHub OAuth appAdd API keys to environmental variablesInstall NextAuth.js and configure the GitHub providerAccess the user session with <SessionProvider>Check the user login state with useSession()Retrieve and display user informationGet additional scope dataConclusion
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