Hey everyone!
We’re making authentication easier to set up and manage with our new Log in with Replit feature for the agent.
It is now available in beta for users in the Explorer group. The document below provides more details about how to get started. We greatly appreciate all feedback.
How…have you achieved this!? Can’t wait to try it out. Think we can replace current (disaster) auth on existing apps with little trouble? (ha)
Thanks @aman-replit - I plan to test this out. I will share what I learn.
Oh, one question I forgot, can this be used on existing apps that already have basic auth created with Agent before?
I answered my own question, it does NOT work very well trying to add this to existing app.
I just implemented a new authentication system and it is very cool.
Can we change the design of the screen for selecting an authentication provider?
Please explain to me like I’m an idiot (
) what users without Replit accounts would see? i.e. do you need a replit account to use this style of login?
If a user does not have an existing Replit account, they must create one while trying to use your app. They can do this directly in the same process of logging into your app.
This is usually pretty quick - especially if they sign up with Google or one of the social providers!
Would love to hear more - what do you want to change?
OK, that’s cool. Is it possible to reverse engineer it into my app that’s currently just asking for name, email, user and password and adding them to the database? What happens when I want to send users an email? Can I, using this authentication method? Presumably not?
Oh they have to have a replit account to use this?
Thanks for the reply.
I felt it would be nice to be able to replace the following components for example.
To be more specific, I feel that I should be able to choose the authentication provider.
I often feel that I want to narrow it down to just google, because if there are too many choices, they can get confused and forget which social networking authentication.
So I thought it would be a solution if, for example, authentication methods other than google could be hidden by design.
But this is just my opinion. Many people may feel that more options would be better.I will try a few more things.
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@aman-replit Do user email addresses that sign up for an app using Login with Replit get Replit’s marketing emails?
No! Replit will not communicate with them unless they use the same account to interact with Replit directly in the future.
Thanks Aman, appreciate it
I’ve been testing the beta Replit Auth and it does appear the user accounts I setup are receiving the marketing emails from Replit. Let me know if you’d like some samples.
Tested setting this up on a new app tonight and run into many issues. I let Agent try many checkpoints to fix but it wasn’t able to. This is on a new app that was created today. I just had added a database right before trying to add auth with Log In with Replit. I’ve reverted for now.
I tried it also and it created issues. It branded the login as log in when replit. It was more trouble than it’s worth.
All for making it easier but I don’t think I’d want to force my users to log in with Replit. Integration with Clerk or Supabase would be better.