I am trying to build a shopping cart in nextjs + s...
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ankitzm
03/26/2022, 9:29 AMI am trying to build a shopping cart in nextjs + supertoken auth(email+password and social login)
I am able to do the authentication part successfully.
I am just wondering how to store user data like address, previous purchases after authentication
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rp_st
03/26/2022, 9:30 AMWhich recipe are you using?
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ankitzm
03/26/2022, 9:31 AMEmail password + social login
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rp_st
03/26/2022, 9:32 AMrp_st
03/26/2022, 9:32 AMA way to do something post sign up
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ankitzm
03/26/2022, 9:33 AMI wa t to store user specific data that will be visible to the authenticated user only
ankitzm
03/26/2022, 9:33 AMLike their address, mobile number
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rp_st
03/26/2022, 9:34 AMYou mean to store info in a session?
rp_st
03/26/2022, 9:34 AMSo that it can be accessed on the frontend / backend?
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ankitzm
03/26/2022, 9:34 AMYes, how can I store info and display that whenever needed.
How to configure database
ankitzm
03/26/2022, 9:35 AMI have never done this thing
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rp_st
03/26/2022, 9:35 AMSo i think there are multiple things here. One, you want to store info against the user ID in the db - that is something you will have to do yourself with your own db
rp_st
03/26/2022, 9:36 AMSecond, you want to access this info to display it to the user. I would advice not to store info like address in the session cause it's too large. Instead, make an API that does session verification and returns the user info that you want to display to them.
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ankitzm
03/26/2022, 9:36 AMYes but how it can be done 🤕
ankitzm
03/26/2022, 9:37 AMDo I have to integrate some external db
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rp_st
03/26/2022, 9:37 AMThat.. you will have to figure yourself. It's outside the scope of supertokens.
We are working on a user metadata feature which will allow you to store info about a user in the db easily, but until then, it's up to you
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ankitzm
03/26/2022, 9:40 AMCan I update the postgres db that is used by supertoken
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rp_st
03/26/2022, 9:42 AM> you can. However, that db is only given to you during development env. In prod, you don't have access to supertoken's db (if you are using our managed service)
rp_st
03/26/2022, 9:42 AMI would recommend spinning up your own db (you can use heroku or AWS RDS) and then put data in there
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ankitzm
03/26/2022, 9:44 AMIt didn't have an option to add my own db. Probably that was there at first but I have selected the other option 😢
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rp_st
03/26/2022, 9:44 AMThere isn't any option to add your own db anyway for managed service
rp_st
03/26/2022, 9:45 AMSo there will be two databases: One for supertokens (managed by us), and one for your application - managed by you
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ankitzm
03/26/2022, 9:46 AMWas talking about this option, I have selected 'managed by supertoken'
ankitzm
03/26/2022, 9:46 AMIs there any way to change it
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rp_st
03/26/2022, 9:47 AMThe other option is to self host. In this case, you will need your own db + you will need to run the supertokens core yourself.
This is more work than just using the managed service
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ankitzm
03/26/2022, 9:49 AMOkk, got that.
So, I will need an external db that will store user id + other user data, then I can fetch the data from there.
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rp_st
03/26/2022, 9:53 AMyes. Exactly.
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ankitzm
03/26/2022, 9:54 AMThanks a lot for the help ✨
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