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Danny White 24be387cdb docs: use sign in terminology across guides and style guides (#49877)
## What kind of change does this PR introduce?

Docs update. Aligns documentation and style guides with the **Sign in /
Sign out / Sign up** platform standard.

Closes DOCS-1328. Related to
[#49874](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/pull/49874).

## What is the current behavior?

Docs style guides prefer _login_ / _log in_. Guide prose uses mixed
login and sign in wording.

## What is the new behavior?

- [WORD_LIST.md](apps/docs/WORD_LIST.md) and
[copywriting.mdx](apps/design-system/content/docs/copywriting.mdx)
document the sign in standard
- Design-system auth examples updated
- Guide prose and API reference spec descriptions updated

### Terminology

**Standard:** Use _sign in_, _sign out_, and _sign up_ as verbs. Use
_sign-in_, _sign-out_, and _sign-up_ as nouns and adjectives. Match
Studio UI labels (**Sign in**, **Sign out**, **Sign up**).

**Preserved intentionally:**

| Category | Keep as-is | Example |
| -------- | ---------- | ------- |
| Feature name | social login | `/social-login`, `features.mdx` heading,
OAuth provider section |
| URL slugs | `login` in paths | `/phone-login`, `/login-flows`,
`choosing-login-flow` |
| CLI | `supabase login` / `supabase logout` | Reference ids
`supabase-login` / `supabase-logout`; executable commands unchanged |
| SDK methods | `logout()` | Kotlin/Swift method names in API reference
titles and examples |
| Third-party UI | Provider product labels | Facebook Login, Kakao
Login, portal **Login** buttons |
| Postgres | Database terminology | login privileges, login credentials,
login via role |
| Audit/logging | Log prose | "Generates the following **log** in the
Postgres Logs" |
| Code and routes | Paths and filenames | `app/login/`, `Login.tsx`,
`demos/android-login` |
| External URLs | Third-party login pages | `dash.cloudflare.com/login`,
`console.neon.tech/login`, `vercel.com/login` |
| API identifiers | Event and field names | Audit actions
`login`/`logout`, `should_logout_user` |

## To test

- Run `pnpm lint:mdx` in `apps/docs`
- Spot-check `features.mdx`, `social-login.mdx`, and a provider guide
(e.g. Facebook, Kakao)

<!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai
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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Documentation**
* Standardized authentication terminology across guides, reference
material, CLI documentation, and copywriting guidance using “sign in,”
“sign out,” and “sign up.”
* Updated authentication instructions, headings, link text, examples,
and SSO guidance for clearer, more consistent wording.
* Corrected related grammar, spelling, hyphenation, and documentation
links while preserving established product names and implementation
commands.
* **Style**
  * Refined code examples with consistent import ordering and spacing.
* **Examples**
* Updated authentication button and menu labels to “Sign in” and “Sign
out.”
<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
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---
title: 'Build a User Management App with Next.js'
description: 'Learn how to use Supabase in your Next.js App.'
---
<$Partial path="uiLibCta.mdx" />
<$Partial path="quickstart_intro.mdx" />
![Supabase User Management example](/docs/img/user-management-demo.png)
<Admonition type="note">
If you get stuck while working through this guide, you can find the [full example on GitHub](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/tree/master/examples/user-management/nextjs-user-management).
</Admonition>
<$Partial path="project_setup.mdx" variables={{ "framework": "nextjs", "tab": "frameworks" }} />
## Building the app
Start building the Next.js app from scratch.
### Initialize a Next.js app
Use [`create-next-app`](https://nextjs.org/docs/getting-started) to initialize an app called `supabase-nextjs`:
```bash
npx create-next-app@latest --ts --use-npm supabase-nextjs
cd supabase-nextjs
```
Install [supabase-js](https://github.com/supabase/supabase-js):
```bash
npm install @supabase/supabase-js
```
Save the environment variables in a `.env.local` file at the root of the project, and paste the API URL and the key that you copied [earlier](#get-api-details).
The application exposes these variables in the browser, and that's fine as Supabase enables [Row Level Security](/docs/guides/database/postgres/row-level-security) by default on all tables.
```bash .env.local
NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL=YOUR_SUPABASE_URL
NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY=YOUR_SUPABASE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY
```
### App styling (optional)
An optional step is to update the CSS file `app/globals.css` to make the app look better.
You can find the full contents of this file [in the example repository](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/supabase/supabase/master/examples/user-management/nextjs-user-management/app/globals.css).
### Supabase Server-Side Auth package
Next.js is a versatile framework offering pre-rendering at build time (SSG), server-side rendering at request time (SSR), API routes, and proxy edge-functions.
To better integrate with the framework, we've created the `@supabase/ssr` package for Server-Side Auth. It has all the functionalities to configure your Supabase project to use cookies for storing user sessions. Read the [Next.js Server-Side Auth guide](/docs/guides/auth/server-side/creating-a-client?queryGroups=package-manager&package-manager=npm&queryGroups=framework&framework=nextjs) for more information.
Install the package for Next.js.
```bash
npm install @supabase/ssr
```
### Supabase utilities
There are two different types of clients in Supabase:
1. **Client Component client** - To access Supabase from Client Components, which run in the browser.
2. **Server Component client** - To access Supabase from Server Components, Server Actions, and Route Handlers, which run only on the server.
We recommend creating the following utilities files for creating clients, and organize them within `lib/supabase` at the root of the project.
Create a `client.ts` and a `server.ts` with the following code for client-side Supabase and server-side Supabase, respectively.
<$CodeTabs>
<$CodeSample
path="/user-management/nextjs-user-management/lib/supabase/client.ts"
lines={[[1, -1]]}
meta="name=lib/supabase/client.ts"
/>
<$CodeSample
path="/user-management/nextjs-user-management/lib/supabase/server.ts"
lines={[[1, -1]]}
meta="name=lib/supabase/server.ts"
/>
</$CodeTabs>
### Next.js proxy
Since Server Components can't write cookies, you need [Proxy](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/getting-started/proxy) to refresh expired Auth tokens and store them.
You accomplish this by:
- Refreshing the Auth token with the call to `supabase.auth.getClaims`.
- Passing the refreshed Auth token to Server Components through `request.cookies.set`, so they don't attempt to refresh the same token themselves.
- Passing the refreshed Auth token to the browser, so it replaces the old token. This is done with `response.cookies.set`.
You could also add a matcher, so that the Proxy only runs on routes that access Supabase. For more information, read [the Next.js matcher documentation](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/file-conventions/proxy#matcher).
<Admonition type="danger">
Be careful when protecting pages. The server gets the user session from the cookies, which anyone can spoof.
</Admonition>
<$Partial path="auth_methods.mdx" />
Create a `proxy.ts` file at the project root and another one within the `lib/supabase` folder. The `lib/supabase` file contains the logic for updating the session. The `proxy.ts` file uses this, which is a Next.js convention.
<$CodeTabs>
<$CodeSample
path="/user-management/nextjs-user-management/proxy.ts"
lines={[[1, -1]]}
meta="name=proxy.ts"
/>
<$CodeSample
path="/user-management/nextjs-user-management/lib/supabase/proxy.ts"
lines={[[1, -1]]}
meta="name=lib/supabase/proxy.ts"
/>
</$CodeTabs>
### Set up a sign-in page
#### Sign-in and sign-up form
To add sign-in/sign-up page for your application, create a new folder named `login`, containing a `page.tsx` file with the following code for a sign-in/sign-up form:
<$CodeTabs>
<$CodeSample
path="/user-management/nextjs-user-management/app/login/page.tsx"
lines={[[1, -1]]}
meta="name=app/login/page.tsx"
/>
</$CodeTabs>
Create the sign-in/sign-up actions to hook up the form to the function which does the following:
- Retrieve the user's information.
- Send that information to Supabase as a sign-up request, which in turns sends a confirmation email. It uses [Magic Links](/docs/guides/auth/auth-email-passwordless#with-magic-link), so users can sign in with their email without using passwords.
- Handle any error that arises.
Create the `actions.ts` file in the `app/login` folder, which contains the sign-in and sign-up functions and the `error/page.tsx` file, which displays an error message if the sign-in or sign-up fails.
<$CodeTabs>
<$CodeSample
path="/user-management/nextjs-user-management/app/login/actions.ts"
lines={[[1, -1]]}
meta="name=app/login/actions.ts"
/>
<$CodeSample
path="/user-management/nextjs-user-management/app/error/page.tsx"
lines={[[1, -1]]}
meta="name=app/error/page.tsx"
/>
</$CodeTabs>
<Admonition type="caution">
The `cookies` method is called before any calls to Supabase, which takes fetch calls out of Next.js's caching. This is important for authenticated data fetches, to ensure that users get access only to their own data.
Read the Next.js docs to learn more about [opting out of data caching](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/data-fetching/fetching-caching-and-revalidating#opting-out-of-data-caching).
</Admonition>
#### Email template
Before proceeding, change the email template to support a server-side authentication flow that sends a token hash:
- Go to the [Auth templates](/dashboard/project/_/auth/templates) page in your dashboard.
- Select the **Confirm signup** template.
- Change `{{ .ConfirmationURL }}` to `{{ .SiteURL }}/auth/confirm?token_hash={{ .TokenHash }}&type=email`.
<Admonition type="note" title="Did you know?">
You can customize other emails sent out to new users, including the email's looks, content, and query parameters from [the **Authentication > Email**](/dashboard/project/_/auth/templates) section of the Dashboard.
</Admonition>
#### Confirmation endpoint
As you are working in a server-side rendering (SSR) environment, you need to create a server endpoint responsible for exchanging the `token_hash` for a session.
The code performs the following steps:
- Retrieves the code sent back from the Supabase Auth server using the `token_hash` query parameter.
- Exchanges this code for a session, which you store in your chosen storage mechanism (in this case, cookies).
- Finally, redirects the user to the `account` page.
<$CodeSample
path="/user-management/nextjs-user-management/app/auth/confirm/route.ts"
lines={[[1, -1]]}
meta="name=app/auth/confirm/route.ts"
/>
### Account page
After a user signs in, they need a way to edit their profile details and manage their accounts.
Create a new component for that called `AccountForm` within the `app/account` folder.
<$CodeSample
path="/user-management/nextjs-user-management/app/account/account-form.tsx"
lines={[[1, 4], [7, 78], [88, 89], [99, -1]]}
meta="name=app/account/account-form.tsx"
/>
Create an account page for the `AccountForm` component you created
<$CodeSample
path="/user-management/nextjs-user-management/app/account/page.tsx"
lines={[[1, -1]]}
meta="name=app/account/page.tsx"
/>
### Sign out
Create a route handler to handle the sign-out from the server side, making sure to check if the user is signed in first.
<$CodeSample
path="/user-management/nextjs-user-management/app/auth/signout/route.ts"
lines={[[1, -1]]}
meta="name=app/auth/signout/route.ts"
/>
## Profile photos
Next, add a way for users to upload a profile photo. Supabase configures every project with [Storage](/docs/guides/storage) for managing large files like photos and videos.
### Create an upload widget
Start by creating a new component:
<$CodeSample
path="/user-management/nextjs-user-management/app/account/avatar.tsx"
lines={[[1, -1]]}
meta="name=app/account/avatar.tsx"
/>
### Update the account form
With the Avatar component created, update `app/account/account-form.tsx` to include it:
<$CodeSample
path="/user-management/nextjs-user-management/app/account/account-form.tsx"
lines={[[1, -1]]}
meta="name=app/account/account-form.tsx"
/>
### Launch
With all the pages, route handlers, and components in place, run the following in a terminal window:
```bash
npm run dev
```
And then open the browser to [localhost:3000/login](http://localhost:3000/login) and you should see the completed app.
When you enter your email and password, you will receive an email with the title **Confirm your email**. Congrats 🎉!!!
At this stage you have a fully functional application!
## See also
- See the complete [example on GitHub](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/tree/master/examples/user-management/nextjs-user-management) and deploy it to Vercel
- [Build a Twitter Clone with the Next.js App Router and Supabase - free egghead course](https://egghead.io/courses/build-a-twitter-clone-with-the-next-js-app-router-and-supabase-19bebadb)
- Explore the [pre-built Auth components](/library/docs/nextjs/password-based-auth)
- Explore the [Supabase Cache Helpers](https://github.com/psteinroe/supabase-cache-helpers)
- See the [Next.js Subscription Payments Starter](https://github.com/vercel/nextjs-subscription-payments) template on GitHub