GoTrue signup authenticates, though with bad User API

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Hi all,

It seems both the Signup and Login functions of GoTrueJs authenticates the user, but only Login provides the full User object as a response(incl the Logout and Update functions). This means that I have to both first let the user signup and then I have to behind the scenes also call Login with their credentials.

Is this as intended? Confused me since they both authenticates the user.

I.e.

let auth = new GoTrue({ APIUrl: "https://xxxxxx.netlify.app/.netlify/identity", audience: "", setCookie: true, });

auth.signup(email, password).then((response) => {
   setUser(response);
})

“response” is a json with email, id etc WITHOUT the logout() and update() functions etc. while in:

auth.login(username, pass, true).then((response) => {
   setUser(response);
})

“response” has the full User typed object INCLUDING the api functions logout() and update().

2

Netlify Identity is a service soon set to be deprecated. GoTrue should be usable, but you’d have to deploy your own instance.

3

Oh no! I’ve finally managed to set up a boilerplate repo with Identity :dizzy_face:

Could I then ask you maybe; I’m a simple frontend React developer that would like to spin up such app projects that has a boilerplate including authentication, sql db, media cdn storage and a generally scalability from 10 users to millions. This without having to become a Devop/Backend engineer as well.

Any tips?

4

There are several better apps and services than handle auth (probably better than Netlify):

  • Supabase
  • Clerk
  • Firebase

are the ones that come to my mind.

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5

Thank you, auth now moved over to Supabase.
Keep up good work with Netlify though!

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