Can NextJS, Next Auth be used with Apollo Client and GraphQl?

[akashshyamdev]

Can NextJS, Next Auth be used with Apollo Client and GraphQl, Mongoose? If so, could you point me to some resources?

[balazsorban44]

yes, absolutely! a quick Google returned several results

[akashshyamdev]

Thanks a lot mate! btw, the adapter docs say that v4 is in beta https://next-auth.js.org/adapters/mongodb. But I don't see it in other places, is this an old warning you guys forgot to remove or is it still in beta?

[balazsorban44]

still beta. As said, the mongodb adapter did not exist in v3. it used the typeorm adapter, but it was easier to split it up and create a mongodb specific one.

[akashshyamdev]

@balazsorban44 but some places in the docs say that v3 support is dropped. Aren't we supposed to drop support after the beta is official? Also, most mongoose & next-auth tutorials/blog posts use the typeorm(v3) instead of v4.

[akashshyamdev]

As you said graphql is not related to nextjs, let's leave that for now. I'm trying to do the following:

1. Use OAuth providers like Google, Facebook, Twitter and Github
2. After the access token stuff is done, then create a user using mongoose inside the DB
3. Create a JWT based on user _id.
4. On the frontend, based on the JWT, implement signup and protected routes

I haven't worked with NextJS and I've used JWT based auth in react and nodeJS rest apis. Could you help me with this?

[balazsorban44]

I would start reading up on Next.js then and learning about JWTs. Unfortunately, I don't have the capacity to teach about those.

Some useful links:

• https://nextjs.org/docs/getting-started
• https://next-auth.js.org/faq#json-web-tokens
• https://next-auth.js.org/tutorials