Skip to content Goals for the Week
- Goal 1: To add multiple methods of signing in to the website (Google OAuth, Facebook OAuth, etc)
- Goal 2: To get User Sessions to get user profile & password resetting working
- Goal 3: Clean up codebase + as adding comments on what to change for production
Accomplishments
- Accomplishment 1: Created a HTML email template for the company to use and added Google OAuth sign in
- Accomplishment 2: Setup route.js to plan on using NextJS’s NextAuth.js for OAuth sign in with other providers
- Accomplishment 3: Added API routes and logic for a forgot password page and a reset password page
Challenges Faced
- Challenge 1: Figuring out how to use NextAuth.js with the flask backend since NextAuth.js is meant to used with the built in routing system of NextJS
- Challenge 2: Learning about smtp and how to send emails using flask
- Challenge 3: Setting up developer accounts for Google, Facebook, LinkedIn to use their OAuth services
Lessons Learned
- Lesson 1: Creating .env files to store sensitive information like API keys & passwords
- Lesson 2: When creating a new OAuth app, you need to set the callback url to the url of the website and the redirect url to the url of the website + /api/auth/callback/provider
- Lesson 3: Prisma is a ORM that can be used to interact with the database and is used to create the database schema
Goals for Next Week
- Goal 1: Fix any bugs that may arise from the deployment on the test server
- Goal 2: Add more OAuth providers to the website
- Goal 3: Figure out how to use PrismaClient with SqLite for local development and PostgreSQL for production
Action Items
- Action Item 1: Read the documentation for NextAuth.js and Prisma
