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Get Started with Auth0

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Quick Summary

Enterprise-grade authentication and authorization platform with extensive identity-provider support.

Best for: Enterprise B2B apps needing SSO/SAML
Time to first integration: 10 minutes

📋Prerequisites

  • Node.js 18+ installed
  • A Auth0 account — sign up here
  • An existing project (Next.js, React, or Node.js recommended)

Setup Steps

4 steps
1

Create an application

Create a Regular Web App in the Auth0 dashboard.

2

Install

Add the Auth0 Next.js SDK to your project.

bash
npm install @auth0/nextjs-auth0
3

Configure env

Set your Auth0 application credentials as environment variables.

bash
AUTH0_SECRET=... AUTH0_BASE_URL=http://localhost:3000 AUTH0_ISSUER_BASE_URL=https://your-tenant.auth0.com AUTH0_CLIENT_ID=... AUTH0_CLIENT_SECRET=...
4

Mount the handler

Add the Auth0 route handler and wrap your app with the Auth0 provider.

typescript
// app/api/auth/[auth0]/route.ts import { handleAuth } from '@auth0/nextjs-auth0' export const GET = handleAuth()

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