Discord Authorization Provider

Discord OAuth App

Register a Developer Application

The first step is register a Developer Application to grant to have acces to the user's accessible resources like Get current User (Used by Aura Auth), Message, Subscription, Channel, etc. For more detailed information read OAuth 2.

Registering a Discord a Developer application includes:

• Name: The application name shown when the user tries to grant access to the app.
• Redirects: The URL to which Discord OAuth will redirect, it should end in /auth/callback/discord for local and production environments.
  • Local environment: http://localhost:3000/auth/callback/discord.
  • Production environment: Set the URL of your production application.

Discord Aura Auth

Installation

Install the package using a package manager like npm, pnpm or yarn.

npm install @aura-stack/auth

Environment setup

Now, it's time to create and consume the Discord credentials required and used by Aura Auth, which include the client Id and client Secret and write them into a .env file.

Additionally set the secret used by Aura Auth to sign and encrypt the user's session.

# Discord Credentials
AURA_AUTH_DISCORD_CLIENT_ID="discord_client_id"
AURA_AUTH_DISCORD_CLIENT_SECRET="discord_client_secret"

# Aura Secret
AURA_AUTH_SECRET="32-bytes-secret"

Configure the provider

Set the oauth option of the createAuth instance and writing "discord" name.

import { createAuth } from "@aura-stack/auth"

export const auth = createAuth({
  oauth: ["discord"],
})

export const { handlers } = auth

Get HTTP Handlers

Use the HTTP handlers to consume the authentication logic and flow the Aura Auth library to be integrated into routers and frameworks.

import { handlers } from "@/auth"

export const { GET, POST } = handlers