REST API
NextAuth.js exposes a REST API which is used by the NextAuth.js client.
GET /api/auth/signin
Displays the sign in page.
POST /api/auth/signin/:provider
Starts an OAuth signin flow for the specified provider.
The POST submission requires CSRF token from /api/auth/csrf.
GET /api/auth/callback/:provider
Handles returning requests from OAuth services during sign in.
For OAuth 2.0 providers that support the state option, the value of the state parameter is checked against the one that was generated when the sign in flow was started - this uses a hash of the CSRF token which MUST match for both the POST and GET calls during sign in.
GET /api/auth/signout
Displays the sign out page.
POST /api/auth/signout
Handles signing out - this is a POST submission to prevent malicious links from triggering signing a user out without their consent.
The POST submission requires CSRF token from /api/auth/csrf.
GET /api/auth/session
Returns client-safe session object - or an empty object if there is no session.
The contents of the session object that is returned are configurable with the session callback.
GET /api/auth/csrf
Returns object containing CSRF token. In NextAuth.js, CSRF protection is present on all authentication routes. It uses the "double submit cookie method", which uses a signed HttpOnly, host-only cookie.
The CSRF token returned by this endpoint must be passed as form variable named csrfToken in all POST submissions to any API endpoint.
GET /api/auth/providers
Returns a list of configured OAuth services and details (e.g. sign in and callback URLs) for each service.
It can be used to dynamically generate custom sign up pages and to check what callback URLs are configured for each OAuth provider that is configured.
The default base path is /api/auth but it is configurable by specifying a custom path in NEXTAUTH_URL
e.g.
NEXTAUTH_URL=https://example.com/myapp/api/authentication
/api/auth/signin -> /myapp/api/authentication/signin