One of the most convenient ways for users to sign up and log in to your application is through social providers like Google, GitHub, Facebook, and many others. Supabase Auth makes integrating these social logins incredibly straightforward, allowing you to offer a seamless user experience with minimal effort.
Supabase Auth supports a wide range of social providers out-of-the-box. You don't need to manage complex OAuth flows yourself; Supabase handles the heavy lifting. This significantly speeds up your development process and reduces the potential for integration errors.
To enable social logins, you first need to configure the desired providers within your Supabase project's dashboard. Navigate to the 'Authentication' section and then to 'Providers'.
For each provider you want to enable, you'll typically need to register your application with that provider's developer console. This involves obtaining API keys and secrets. The exact steps vary per provider, but Supabase provides clear instructions and links for each one directly in the dashboard.
Once configured in Supabase, integrating social logins into your frontend application is as simple as using the Supabase JavaScript client. The client provides dedicated functions to initiate the social login flow.
import { createClient } from '@supabase/supabase-js'
const supabaseUrl = 'YOUR_SUPABASE_URL'
const supabaseAnonKey = 'YOUR_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY'
const supabase = createClient(supabaseUrl, supabaseAnonKey)
async function signInWithGoogle() {
const { data, error } = await supabase.auth.signInWithOAuth({
provider: 'google',
})
if (error) {
console.error('Error signing in with Google:', error)
}
// The user will be redirected to Google for authentication.
// After successful authentication, they will be redirected back to your app.
}Similarly, for other providers like GitHub, the code would look very similar, just changing the provider argument.
async function signInWithGitHub() {
const { data, error } = await supabase.auth.signInWithOAuth({
provider: 'github',
})
if (error) {
console.error('Error signing in with GitHub:', error)
}
}