Password-less login/signup

[laurentS]

This is a followup to another discussion where a solution to signup with email only was suggested.

I was trying to do a password-less signup form after asking the user for some simple info (you know, trying to make it as low friction as possible ⏩ ) but there's an issue:

• if I use supabase.auth.signUp() I get the user_id in the response, so I can immediately save info in the db that is linked to my new user
• if I use supabase.auth.signIn() I'm not getting anything, so I can't do this, which makes me sad 😢

It would be cool if the second option was possible. I can't see any major blockers, as the account is created in the backend, it would just need sending back the user data, probably via some different api call, maybe auth.signUp but without password? Am I missing something?

[kiwicopple]

Hi @laurentS , here are our docs for magic links: https://supabase.io/docs/client/auth-signin#sign-in-with-magic-link

Is there something missing from our docs perhaps?

[laurentS]

I was hoping to get my users to sign up without inputting a password right away, so the flow would be a form asking some question, then "input your email" (sends magic link) and at that point, I'd save their answer to the question in their profile (say in public.user_profiles). But I don't get the user object back from the signIn method, so I can't do this.
Having thought a little more about it, it might make sense from a security perspective, but then I think the docs should mention that signIn won't return the user object (looking at the code, the response is something like { user: null, ...}.

[alz10]

Have you disable email confirmation?

[laurentS]

No, I kept them on.