@auth/nuxt

Nuxt Auth is the official Nuxt integration for Auth.js. It provides a simple way to add authentication to your Nuxt app in a few lines of code.

Installation

npm install @auth/nuxt

pnpm add @auth/nuxt

yarn add @auth/nuxt

bun add @auth/nuxt

Usage

Add @auth/nuxt to the modules section of nuxt.config.ts. You can also set the basePath option to change the default path for the authentication routes. Use runtime configuration to set auth related secrets. These will be automatically replaced by the runtime values, if your environment has variables like NUXT_AUTH_SECRET, NUXT_AUTH_GITHUB_CLIENT_ID, NUXT_AUTH_GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET.

export default defineNuxtConfig({
 modules: ["@auth/nuxt"],
 
 // module options
 auth: {
   basePath: "/auth",
 },
 
 runtimeConfig: {
   auth: {
     secret: "",
     github: {
       clientId: "",
       clientSecret: "",
     },
   },
 },
})

Provider Configuration

To configure the providers, you need to set up the handler in a file in the server/utils/auth.ts (this will provide auto-import on the server side) and server/routes/auth/[...].ts files. Use runtime configuration to set the client ID and client secret, and also the AuthJS secret.

 
import { NuxtAuth } from "#auth"
import type { AuthConfig } from "@auth/nuxt"
import type { H3Event } from "h3"
import GitHub from "@auth/nuxt/providers/github"
 
const runtimeConfig = useRuntimeConfig()
export const authConfig: AuthConfig = {
    ...runtimeConfig.auth,
    secret: runtimeConfig.auth.secret,
    providers: [GitHub(runtimeConfig.auth.github)],
}
 
const { handlers, auth: _auth } = NuxtAuth(authConfig)
export function authHandler() {
  return handlers
}
 
// You can use this for getting session on the server side
export async function auth(event: H3Event) {
  return await _auth(event)
}

// no need even to import the authHandler, it will be auto-imported from the src/server/utils/auth.ts
export default authHandler()

Signing in and signing out

This module provides a composable useAuth to work with the module functionality, like do client-side sign-in and sign-out actions.

   <script setup lang="ts">
   const { signIn, signOut, session, auth } = useAuth()
   </script>
 
   <template>
     <div>
       <div v-if="auth.loggedIn">
         <p>Welcome, {{ auth?.user?.name }}</p>
         <button @click="signOut">Sign out</button>
       </div>
       <div v-else>
         <button @click="signIn">Sign in</button>
       </div>
     </div>
   </template>

Managing the session

TODO:

Authorization

In @auth/nuxt there are a few ways you could protect routes from unauthenticated users. The module provides two middlewares: auth-logged-in and auth-logged-out.

There are 2 main scenarios:

1. No enforced authentication in pages, opt-in for authentication at certain pages

• Use the auth-logged-in middelware with definePageMeta() at a given to-be-protected page: Optionally set a redirect location for unauthenticated users.

Example

     definePageMeta({
       middleware: ["auth-logged-in"],
       auth: {
         unauthenticatedRedirectTo: "/guest",
       },
     })

2. Require authentication for all pages, opt-out from authentication at certain pages

• Load auth-logged-in middleware to all to-be-protected pages in nuxt.config.ts using ‘pages-extend’ hook. You can use arbitrary logic to determine which pages should be exempt from the middleware (in the below example the / and /guest routes are unprotected).

Example

export default defineNuxtRouteMiddleware((to, from) => {
 // root and guest pages are always accessible
 if (["/", "/guest"].includes(to.path)) {
   return
 }
 
 // All other pages require authentication
 const { auth } = useAuth()
 
 if (!auth.value.loggedIn) {
   if (import.meta.server) {
     return createError({
       statusCode: 401,
       message: "You must be logged in to access this page",
     })
   }
   return abortNavigation()
 }
})

Account

Usually contains information about the provider being used and also extends TokenSet, which is different tokens returned by OAuth Providers.

Extends

• Partial<TokenEndpointResponse>

Properties

access_token?

optional readonly access_token: string;

Inherited from

Partial.access_token

authorization_details?

optional readonly authorization_details: AuthorizationDetails[];

Inherited from

Partial.authorization_details

expires_at?

optional expires_at: number;

Calculated value based on TokenEndpointResponse.expires_in.

It is the absolute timestamp (in seconds) when the TokenEndpointResponse.access_token expires.

This value can be used for implementing token rotation together with TokenEndpointResponse.refresh_token.

See

• https://authjs.dev/guides/refresh-token-rotation#database-strategy
• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6749#section-5.1

expires_in?

optional readonly expires_in: number;

Inherited from

Partial.expires_in

id_token?

optional readonly id_token: string;

Inherited from

Partial.id_token

provider

provider: string;

Provider’s id for this account. E.g. “google”. See the full list at https://authjs.dev/reference/core/providers

providerAccountId

providerAccountId: string;

This value depends on the type of the provider being used to create the account.

• oauth/oidc: The OAuth account’s id, returned from the profile() callback.
• email: The user’s email address.
• credentials: id returned from the authorize() callback

refresh_token?

optional readonly refresh_token: string;

Inherited from

Partial.refresh_token

scope?

optional readonly scope: string;

Inherited from

Partial.scope

token_type?

optional readonly token_type: Lowercase<string>;

NOTE: because the value is case insensitive it is always returned lowercased

Inherited from

Partial.token_type

type

type: ProviderType;

Provider’s type for this account

userId?

optional userId: string;

id of the user this account belongs to

See

https://authjs.dev/reference/core/adapters#adapteruser

AuthConfig

Configure the Auth method.

Example

import Auth, { type AuthConfig } from "@auth/core"
 
export const authConfig: AuthConfig = {...}
 
const request = new Request("https://example.com")
const response = await AuthHandler(request, authConfig)

See

Initialization

Properties

adapter?

optional adapter: Adapter;

You can use the adapter option to pass in your database adapter.

basePath?

optional basePath: string;

The base path of the Auth.js API endpoints.

Default

"/api/auth" in "next-auth"; "/auth" with all other frameworks

callbacks?

optional callbacks: {
  jwt: (params) => Awaitable<null | JWT>;
  redirect: (params) => Awaitable<string>;
  session: (params) => Awaitable<Session | DefaultSession>;
  signIn: (params) => Awaitable<string | boolean>;
};

Callbacks are asynchronous functions you can use to control what happens when an action is performed. Callbacks are extremely powerful, especially in scenarios involving JSON Web Tokens as they allow you to implement access controls without a database and to integrate with external databases or APIs.

jwt()?

optional jwt: (params) => Awaitable<null | JWT>;

This callback is called whenever a JSON Web Token is created (i.e. at sign in) or updated (i.e whenever a session is accessed in the client). Anything you return here will be saved in the JWT and forwarded to the session callback. There you can control what should be returned to the client. Anything else will be kept from your frontend. The JWT is encrypted by default via your AUTH_SECRET environment variable.

session callback

Parameters

Returns

Awaitable<null | JWT>

redirect()?

optional redirect: (params) => Awaitable<string>;

This callback is called anytime the user is redirected to a callback URL (i.e. on signin or signout). By default only URLs on the same host as the origin are allowed. You can use this callback to customise that behaviour.

Documentation

Example

callbacks: {
  async redirect({ url, baseUrl }) {
    // Allows relative callback URLs
    if (url.startsWith("/")) return `${baseUrl}${url}`
 
    // Allows callback URLs on the same origin
    if (new URL(url).origin === baseUrl) return url
 
    return baseUrl
  }
}

Parameters

Returns

Awaitable<string>

session()?

optional session: (params) => Awaitable<Session | DefaultSession>;

This callback is called whenever a session is checked. (i.e. when invoking the /api/session endpoint, using useSession or getSession). The return value will be exposed to the client, so be careful what you return here! If you want to make anything available to the client which you’ve added to the token through the JWT callback, you have to explicitly return it here as well.

The token argument is only available when using the jwt session strategy, and the user argument is only available when using the database session strategy.

jwt callback

Example

callbacks: {
  async session({ session, token, user }) {
    // Send properties to the client, like an access_token from a provider.
    session.accessToken = token.accessToken
 
    return session
  }
}

Parameters

Returns

Awaitable<Session | DefaultSession>

signIn()?

optional signIn: (params) => Awaitable<string | boolean>;

Controls whether a user is allowed to sign in or not. Returning true continues the sign-in flow. Returning false or throwing an error will stop the sign-in flow and redirect the user to the error page. Returning a string will redirect the user to the specified URL.

Unhandled errors will throw an AccessDenied with the message set to the original error.

AccessDenied

Example

callbacks: {
 async signIn({ profile }) {
  // Only allow sign in for users with email addresses ending with "yourdomain.com"
  return profile?.email?.endsWith("@yourdomain.com")
}

Parameters

Returns

Awaitable<string | boolean>

cookies?

optional cookies: Partial<CookiesOptions>;

You can override the default cookie names and options for any of the cookies used by Auth.js. You can specify one or more cookies with custom properties and missing options will use the default values defined by Auth.js. If you use this feature, you will likely want to create conditional behavior to support setting different cookies policies in development and production builds, as you will be opting out of the built-in dynamic policy.

• ⚠ This is an advanced option. Advanced options are passed the same way as basic options, but may have complex implications or side effects. You should try to avoid using advanced options unless you are very comfortable using them.

Default

{}

debug?

optional debug: boolean;

Set debug to true to enable debug messages for authentication and database operations.

• ⚠ If you added a custom AuthConfig.logger, this setting is ignored.

Default

false

events?

optional events: {
  createUser: (message) => Awaitable<void>;
  linkAccount: (message) => Awaitable<void>;
  session: (message) => Awaitable<void>;
  signIn: (message) => Awaitable<void>;
  signOut: (message) => Awaitable<void>;
  updateUser: (message) => Awaitable<void>;
};

Events are asynchronous functions that do not return a response, they are useful for audit logging. You can specify a handler for any of these events below - e.g. for debugging or to create an audit log. The content of the message object varies depending on the flow (e.g. OAuth or Email authentication flow, JWT or database sessions, etc), but typically contains a user object and/or contents of the JSON Web Token and other information relevant to the event.

Default

{}

createUser()?

optional createUser: (message) => Awaitable<void>;

Parameters

Returns

Awaitable<void>

linkAccount()?

optional linkAccount: (message) => Awaitable<void>;

Parameters

Returns

Awaitable<void>

session()?

optional session: (message) => Awaitable<void>;

The message object will contain one of these depending on if you use JWT or database persisted sessions:

• token: The JWT for this session.
• session: The session object from your adapter.

Parameters

Returns

Awaitable<void>

signIn()?

optional signIn: (message) => Awaitable<void>;

If using a credentials type auth, the user is the raw response from your credential provider. For other providers, you’ll get the User object from your adapter, the account, and an indicator if the user was new to your Adapter.

Parameters

Returns

Awaitable<void>

signOut()?

optional signOut: (message) => Awaitable<void>;

The message object will contain one of these depending on if you use JWT or database persisted sessions:

• token: The JWT for this session.
• session: The session object from your adapter that is being ended.

Parameters

Returns

Awaitable<void>

updateUser()?

optional updateUser: (message) => Awaitable<void>;

Parameters

Returns

Awaitable<void>

experimental?

optional experimental: {
  enableWebAuthn: boolean;
};

Use this option to enable experimental features. When enabled, it will print a warning message to the console.

Note

Experimental features are not guaranteed to be stable and may change or be removed without notice. Please use with caution.

Default

{}

enableWebAuthn?

optional enableWebAuthn: boolean;

Enable WebAuthn support.

Default

false

jwt?

optional jwt: Partial<JWTOptions>;

JSON Web Tokens are enabled by default if you have not specified an AuthConfig.adapter. JSON Web Tokens are encrypted (JWE) by default. We recommend you keep this behaviour.

logger?

optional logger: Partial<LoggerInstance>;

Override any of the logger levels (undefined levels will use the built-in logger), and intercept logs in NextAuth. You can use this option to send NextAuth logs to a third-party logging service.

Example

// /auth.ts
import log from "logging-service"
 
export const { handlers, auth, signIn, signOut } = NextAuth({
  logger: {
    error(code, ...message) {
      log.error(code, message)
    },
    warn(code, ...message) {
      log.warn(code, message)
    },
    debug(code, ...message) {
      log.debug(code, message)
    }
  }
})

• ⚠ When set, the AuthConfig.debug option is ignored

Default

console

pages?

optional pages: Partial<PagesOptions>;

Specify URLs to be used if you want to create custom sign in, sign out and error pages. Pages specified will override the corresponding built-in page.

Default

{}

Example

  pages: {
    signIn: '/auth/signin',
    signOut: '/auth/signout',
    error: '/auth/error',
    verifyRequest: '/auth/verify-request',
    newUser: '/auth/new-user'
  }

providers

providers: Provider[];

List of authentication providers for signing in (e.g. Google, Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, Email, etc) in any order. This can be one of the built-in providers or an object with a custom provider.

Default

[]

raw?

optional raw: typeof raw;

redirectProxyUrl?

optional redirectProxyUrl: string;

When set, during an OAuth sign-in flow, the redirect_uri of the authorization request will be set based on this value.

This is useful if your OAuth Provider only supports a single redirect_uri or you want to use OAuth on preview URLs (like Vercel), where you don’t know the final deployment URL beforehand.

The url needs to include the full path up to where Auth.js is initialized.

Note

This will auto-enable the state OAuth2Config.checks on the provider.

Example

"https://authjs.example.com/api/auth"

You can also override this individually for each provider.

Example

GitHub({
  ...
  redirectProxyUrl: "https://github.example.com/api/auth"
})

Default

AUTH_REDIRECT_PROXY_URL environment variable

See also: Guide: Securing a Preview Deployment

secret?

optional secret: string | string[];

A random string used to hash tokens, sign cookies and generate cryptographic keys.

To generate a random string, you can use the Auth.js CLI: npx auth secret

Note

You can also pass an array of secrets, in which case the first secret that successfully decrypts the JWT will be used. This is useful for rotating secrets without invalidating existing sessions. The newer secret should be added to the start of the array, which will be used for all new sessions.

session?

optional session: {
  generateSessionToken: () => string;
  maxAge: number;
  strategy: "database" | "jwt";
  updateAge: number;
};

Configure your session like if you want to use JWT or a database, how long until an idle session expires, or to throttle write operations in case you are using a database.

generateSessionToken()?

optional generateSessionToken: () => string;

Generate a custom session token for database-based sessions. By default, a random UUID or string is generated depending on the Node.js version. However, you can specify your own custom string (such as CUID) to be used.

Default

randomUUID or randomBytes.toHex depending on the Node.js version

Returns

string

maxAge?

optional maxAge: number;

Relative time from now in seconds when to expire the session

Default

2592000 // 30 days

strategy?

optional strategy: "database" | "jwt";

Choose how you want to save the user session. The default is "jwt", an encrypted JWT (JWE) in the session cookie.

If you use an adapter however, we default it to "database" instead. You can still force a JWT session by explicitly defining "jwt".

When using "database", the session cookie will only contain a sessionToken value, which is used to look up the session in the database.

Documentation | Adapter | About JSON Web Tokens

updateAge?

optional updateAge: number;

How often the session should be updated in seconds. If set to 0, session is updated every time.

Default

86400 // 1 day

skipCSRFCheck?

optional skipCSRFCheck: typeof skipCSRFCheck;

theme?

optional theme: Theme;

Changes the theme of built-in AuthConfig.pages.

trustHost?

optional trustHost: boolean;

Auth.js relies on the incoming request’s host header to function correctly. For this reason this property needs to be set to true.

Make sure that your deployment platform sets the host header safely.

useSecureCookies?

optional useSecureCookies: boolean;

When set to true then all cookies set by NextAuth.js will only be accessible from HTTPS URLs. This option defaults to false on URLs that start with http:// (e.g. http://localhost:3000) for developer convenience. You can manually set this option to false to disable this security feature and allow cookies to be accessible from non-secured URLs (this is not recommended).

• ⚠ This is an advanced option. Advanced options are passed the same way as basic options, but may have complex implications or side effects. You should try to avoid using advanced options unless you are very comfortable using them.

The default is false HTTP and true for HTTPS sites.

DefaultSession

Extended by

• Session

Properties

expires

expires: string;

user?

optional user: User;

MiddlewareConfig

Properties

globalUnauthenticatedRedirectTo?

optional globalUnauthenticatedRedirectTo: string;

NuxtAuthConfig

Configure the defineNuxtModule method.

Properties

basePath?

optional basePath: string;

middleware?

optional middleware: MiddlewareConfig;

Profile

The user info returned from your OAuth provider.

See

https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#StandardClaims

Indexable

[claim: string]: unknown

Properties

address?

optional address: null | {
  country: null | string;
  formatted: null | string;
  locality: null | string;
  postal_code: null | string;
  region: null | string;
  street_address: null | string;
};

birthdate?

optional birthdate: null | string;

email?

optional email: null | string;

email_verified?

optional email_verified: null | boolean;

family_name?

optional family_name: null | string;

gender?

optional gender: null | string;

given_name?

optional given_name: null | string;

id?

optional id: null | string;

locale?

optional locale: null | string;

middle_name?

optional middle_name: null | string;

name?

optional name: null | string;

nickname?

optional nickname: null | string;

phone_number?

optional phone_number: null | string;

picture?

optional picture: any;

preferred_username?

optional preferred_username: null | string;

profile?

optional profile: null | string;

sub?

optional sub: null | string;

updated_at?

optional updated_at: null | string | number | Date;

website?

optional website: null | string;

zoneinfo?

optional zoneinfo: null | string;

Session

The active session of the logged in user.

Extends

• DefaultSession

Properties

expires

expires: string;

Inherited from

DefaultSession.expires

user?

optional user: User;

Inherited from

DefaultSession.user

User

The shape of the returned object in the OAuth providers’ profile callback, available in the jwt and session callbacks, or the second parameter of the session callback, when using a database.

Properties

email?

optional email: null | string;

id?

optional id: string;

image?

optional image: null | string;

name?

optional name: null | string;

default()

default(
   this, 
   resolvedOptions, 
   nuxt): ModuleSetupReturn

Parameters

Returns

ModuleSetupReturn