/passwordless-auth

Allows a user to login directly via email without a need for entering passwords using Cognito

Primary LanguageTypeScript

Passwordless Auth

This stack allows a user to login directly via email without any need for a pasword. This uses Cognito for authentication along with Lambda triggers. Here's the blog post for the same.

The cdk.json file tells the CDK Toolkit how to execute your app.

Prerequisites

  • Install dependencies using yarn
  • Rename .example.env to .env in packages/backend and replace the value in SES_FROM_ADDRESS to your verified email address in SES
  • Rename .example.env to .env in packages/frontend and replace the value in AWS_REGION to the region your stack is deployed to. Default is us-east-2

Useful commands

CDK

  • yarn workspace backend build compile typescript to js
  • yarn workspace backend watch watch for changes and compile
  • yarn workspace backend test perform the jest unit tests
  • yarn workspace backend cdk deploy deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region
  • yarn workspace backend cdk diff compare deployed stack with current state
  • yarn workspace backend cdk synth emits the synthesized CloudFormation template

Webapp

  • yarn workspace frontend dev starts the dev server on http://localhost:3000
  • yarn workspace frontend build builds the app for production to the build folder
  • yarn workspace frontend test launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode