Hello two quick questions about this service 1 Can I use use

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Hello two quick questions about this service 1 Can I use username password for logins 2 I need a webhook actions api to run some javascript on user signups Is this available

rp · Answer

hey < Bralz>

rp · Answer

yes you can do both 1 use the emailpassword login recipe and modify the email validators to accept any string You can change the label on the frontend pre built UI to change Email to Username using the language translation feature 2 We use the concepts of override like in inheritance using which you can modify the logic for any API exposed by supertokens For example see this on how to do post sign up stuff https supertokens com docs emailpassword common customizations handling signup success

Bralz · Answer

Ok cool so then if I m overriding the emailPassword stuff for a username but still want an optional email address for each user I would just add another metadata field for the email

rp · Answer

Yea but instead of storing the email in metadata you should store in your own db cause then you can enforce uniqueness of emails Also you may want to override the reset password related functions to get the email from your db if it exists instead of using our default impl which will get the username which ofc won t work

Bralz · Answer

Yes I am also making a MongoDB for some user specific data So I can just use supertokens for auth and push everything else into the mongo user entry

rp · Answer

yea Pretty much

Bralz · Answer

One last question Each user is going to get generated a key that needs to be encrypted at rest like a password Would supertokens or my mongodb be the better choice for where to safely store this

rp · Answer

If you want to always fetch the that key from the userId then you can use the supertokens metadata recipe to store it against the user

rp · Answer

If you want to fetch that key based on some other criteria other than the user Id then you should store it in your own db

Bralz · Answer

Ok thanks