Authentication

How to think about and implement authorization in your app. Think through each layers: clients, middleware, RBAC, RLS, and more. All with the power of code and abstractions.

You can test functions that rely on a sign-in by decoding your JWT and using the fields with "Act as a user" on the dashboard.

Convex Auth is a library for implementing authentication natively in your Convex backend.

Learn how to use Auth.js with your Next.js server and Convex backend to build a full-featured authentication system.

Learn how to install and configure the Convex adapter for Auth.js as part of getting set up with Convex and Next.js.