Learn about user management concepts in Nile Auth, including how to create, update, and manage users and their sessions.

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User Model

The User model in Nile Auth defines the structure of a user object. It includes both basic and custom properties to meet the needs of your application. 
interface User {
  id: string;
  email: string;
  name?: string | null;
  familyName?: string | null;
  givenName?: string | null;
  picture?: string | null;
  created: string;
  updated?: string;
  emailVerified?: string | null;
  tenants: { id: string }[];
}

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User Properties

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Basic Properties

  • Email: The user’s email address. This is true across all users of a database
  • Profile information: Includes details like the user’s name, contact info, and other relevant data, along with any tenants the user is associated.

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User Operations

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Creating Users

To create a new user, you can make a POST request to the /users endpoint. 
const newUser = await nile.users.createUser({ email: 'user@example.com', password: 'user1' });

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Adding users

When a user is created, they are not automatically added to a tenant, unless newTenant is present. Users can only add other users to tenants of which they are a member. To add a user to a tenant, use linkUser 
const user1 = await nile.users.createUser({ email: 'user1@example.com', password: 'user1', newTenant: 'myTenant' });
const user2 = await nile.users.createUser({ email: 'user2@example.com', password: 'user2' });
// make user1 and user2 part of the same tenant
const updated2 = await nile.tenants.addMember(user2.id);

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Updating Users

Because users are isolated to their own session, existing user update themselves via PUT method. A custom endpoint would need to be created in order for one user to update the information of another. 
const updatedUser = await nile.users.updateSelf({ name: 'user1' });

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Deleting Users

Because user accounts are isolated, one user is unable to delete another. It is possible remove a user from a tenant from the built-in API. In order to to that, use unlinkUser 
const unlinked = await nile.tenants.removeMember(user2.id);

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User Authentication

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Password-based Authentication

Password-based authentication is not recommended for production applications. Use social authentication or other secure methods instead.
You can authenticate users using their email and password. After a successful login, a session token in for form of a JWT is returned. All other forms use a session token saved in the database. For demonstration purposes, we are using the server-side methods. It would be rare to do this in a real application. 
// Example password authentication - not recommended for production
const session = await nile.auth.login({
  email: 'user@example.com',
  password: 'password123',
});

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Social Authentication

Nile Auth also supports social authentication via OAuth providers such as Google or Facebook. In order to configure this, see Single Sign On

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User Sessions

A session is always within the context of a request. You can access session data using: 
const session = await nile.auth.getSession();