Update 8 January 2018: Check out my youtube channel about Ooth and Staart.

As you might know, there is no official next.js authentication example yet. It’s on the way, but the relevant issue has been open for about 5 months now, and a pull request has been put on hold.

Over the last months I’ve been developing an extensible user accounts system for node called Ooth. It builds on Passport.js strategies for authentication, and handles the persistence and management of user…

Well, this has been exciting! My last article drafting the architecture of an extensible authentication / accounts microservice for node has raised some interest, and motivated me to explore the problem further.

In the last article we saw how one can use ooth as a standalone microservice (see the full example here). Your application client can then authenticate to ooth with any strategy, get a JWT in return, and use that to create a session with the actual…