Authentication

Authentication allows you to identify users and restrict what data they can see and edit.

Your product will need a way for users to sign up, log in, log out and, if passwords are used, a way to recover access after losing a password. This is a complicated feature set to implement, especially given that any bugs impact security.

You can implement all of this using Convex, but we currently recommend that you instead leverage a Convex integration with an existing third-party auth provider. This will be much less work and a more secure solution. Choose from one of the following integrations, which both provide login via passwords, social identity providers and one-time email or SMS access codes:

Clerk is newer and has better Next.js and React Native support
Auth0 is more established with more bells and whistles