603466164219281420 #support-questions

okay, tomorrow or during the weekend I will look into the backend part cause I am running a serverless architecture and want to make sure I set it up correctly.

user

04/23/2021, 7:29 PM

wondering what exactly are the differences between the self-hosted version and the free-5k-users tier version?

dleiva04

04/23/2021, 8:35 PM

The self hosted you have to take care of which platform do you want to deploy it, alerts, and everything, maybe for a more custom solution, and the free-5k is pretty much plug and play, everything is set up and just start using it

04/24/2021, 5:26 AM

One more diff is that the self hosted is free for unlimited number of users.

user

04/24/2021, 7:31 AM

so, I already created an account and trying to set up the backend env now. following this documentation: https://supertokens.io/docs/nodejs/2.5.X/usage-with-express/setup TypeScript complains that

hosts

is not an expected parameter. I guess that's what's replaced by

connectionUri

...

user

04/24/2021, 7:36 AM

I guess TS should be source of truth so that type is what's actually expected for the

init

method:

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export declare type TypeInput = {
    supertokens: {
        connectionURI: string;
        apiKey?: string;
    };
    apiWebProxyPath?: string;
    appInfo: AppInfo;
    recipeList: RecipeListFunction[];
    telemetry?: boolean;
    isInServerlessEnv?: boolean;
};

user

04/24/2021, 7:41 AM

if that's the case then I guess all config values under

All config values:

are outdated.

04/24/2021, 9:26 AM

@User , you are following the wrong docs.

04/24/2021, 9:28 AM

- for emailpasword, you should see: https://supertokens.io/docs/emailpassword/quick-setup/backend - for thirdpartyemailpassword, you should see: https://supertokens.io/docs/thirdpartyemailpassword/quick-setup/backend

04/24/2021, 9:29 AM

Quick question, how did you end up seeing the older version of the docs?

04/24/2021, 9:32 AM

For most things, you will only need to see the recipe docs (i.e. https://supertokens.io/docs//*). The docs for https://supertokens.io/docs/nodejs/* is only for reference in case the recipe docs are not sufficient

user

04/24/2021, 10:50 AM

okay, thanks. that is somehow not clear from the docs. I reached the old docs from the dashboard -> dev env -> Connect -

Go to documentation

link

04/24/2021, 10:50 AM

Interesting.. which version of the core is deployed for you?

04/24/2021, 10:51 AM

The version number is visible in the dashboard

user

04/24/2021, 10:51 AM

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Development Environment (v3.4)

04/24/2021, 10:51 AM

Got it. We will fix this. Thanks!

user

04/24/2021, 10:51 AM

awesome! 🙌

user

04/24/2021, 10:54 AM

another inconsistency from the Netlify example on Github. this snippet

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app.use((err, req, res, next) => {
    console.log(err);
    res.send(
        "Something went wrong. Please see error here: https://app.netlify.com/sites/hardcore-goodall-fd3278/functions/api"
    );
});

results in an error because

req

and

res

should be the first and second arguments, respectively. I have no idea how this could work as it is written now. I am not even sure

err

is part of the function signature. I just put

req

and

res

as 1st and 2nd args and it worked out.

04/24/2021, 10:55 AM

Actually, this is correct. In express, when the first argument is

err

, that means we are defining an error handler.

04/24/2021, 10:56 AM

And that's exactly what we want to do here: https://github.com/supertokens/supertokens-auth-react/blob/master/examples/with-netlify/netlify/functions/api.js#L42

user

04/24/2021, 10:56 AM

cool, cool. I am just saying that

res.send

resulted in

TypeError: res.send is not a function

user

04/24/2021, 10:57 AM

that's exactly where I took the example from.

04/24/2021, 10:58 AM

that's odd.. Perhaps the typings of that lib are incorrect.

04/24/2021, 10:59 AM

you can use

(res as any).send(...)

to ignore the error

user

04/24/2021, 11:00 AM

cool, thanks! for now, just testing things out, no major problems with that part.

user

04/24/2021, 11:07 AM

looking at the

init

method now. what

apiDomain

refers to? in my case of adding ST to a Lambda function should this API domain be the URL of the Lambda func itself?

04/24/2021, 11:07 AM

Yes. That is, what domain does the frontend use to reach the lambda function?

04/24/2021, 11:08 AM

in case of netlify / nextJS, the apiDomain is equal to the websiteDomain.