[Question] What happens in createRouteHandler

[Bulletninja]

auth-email/auth-email/src-app/api/index.ts

Line 220 in 9dc57ce

? handlers[key as keyof typeof handlers]

i'm trying to understand some parts of your code, but i'm not sure what that auth method does, specially this expression:

handlers[key as keyof typeof handlers]

An explanation of this would be very much appreciated.
~~Also, does nextjs wrap query params into a params object? ~~
I'm trying to implement a simple auth for learning purposes, and in my case i'm using netlify lambdas, and i get the token directly.

Was also curious that your example uses #token= instead of ?token=. But perhaps that should be a separate question.
Thanks again for this library btw.

PS: Read more about nextjs server side and found those params basically serve as routers.

[dferber90]

The createAuthRouteHandler function creates a handler which handles all requests to /api/auth/....

You see this object here, which defines some keys:

auth-email/auth-email/src-app/api/index.ts

Lines 203 to 215 in 9dc57ce

	const handlers = {
	login: createLogin(options),
	logout: createLogout(options),
	signup: createSignup(options),
	tokencontent: createTokenContent(options),
	"forgot-password": createForgotPassword(options),
	"reset-password": createResetPassword(options),
	"change-password": createChangePassword(options),
	"confirm-account": createConfirmAccount(options),
	"resend-confirmation-email": createResendConfirmationEmail(options),
	oauth: createOAuth(options),
	connect: createConnect(options),
	}

The handlers[key as keyof typeof handlers] is typescripts way of accessing handlers[key]. So we answer requests to /api/auth/login with the handler defined in the object above under the login key.

Was also curious that your example uses #token= instead of ?token=. But perhaps that should be a separate question.
Thanks again for this library btw.

This question is likely referring to the OAuth part. An OAuth provider returns the token through the URL when redirecting back to our application. The browser will not send things after the hash to the server, which allows OAuth to keep the token private. This is a very short explanation. Now you'll have a starting point of what to Google for at least :)

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Thanks for showing interest, that's really nice to see! This package is very alpha-stage. You might be better off with something like next-auth for now :)