In this tutorial, I'll walk you through setting up authentication in your Next.js 13 app directory using NextAuth.js. It's worth noting that while we use the NextAuth package in this tutorial, you may be using the Auth.js package by the time you read this, as the libraries are now interchangeable.

This project is a backend for an authorization system with a full range of features, including social login, email verification, two-factor authentication, and password recovery. The system supports user role management and ensures high levels of security and scalability.

⚡ QuickShield — a lightweight, production-ready authentication template built with Fastify, Prisma, and TypeScript. Features secure cookie sessions, CSRF protection, rate limiting, email-based password resets, and automatic Swagger docs — everything you need to bootstrap a modern auth API.

In this project, I built a NestJS backend with session-based auth, social login, email verification, password reset, and role management.