Theo's Typesafe Cult•2y ago

How to let 2 types of users to login to my app - customers and businesses

I'm using Clerk rn but I'm down to switch to NextAuth if it works better for this. I just want to let customers and businesses sign up to this website - and they see different stuff when they login. I ask businneses more questions on signup and store that in a table (customer data on another table) How would I even manage this? Do I let states manage this? (don't think this is correct)

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parthmmm•2y ago

maybe with the clerk user metadata you can create a role or type for customer/business

AryanOP•2y ago

Could you explain in a little more detail?

parthmmm•2y ago

https://clerk.com/docs/users/user-metadata

await clerkClient.users.updateUserMetadata("user_id",{
  // Read only on client, Read / Write on the server
  publicMetadata:{
    "role": "awesome"
  },
  // Read only on server and Writable on Server
  privateMetadata:{
    "role": "awesomesauce"
  },
  // Read / Write anywhere
  unsafeMetadata:{
    "role": "awesomeawesome"
  }
});

await clerkClient.users.updateUserMetadata("user_id",{
  // Read only on client, Read / Write on the server
  publicMetadata:{
    "role": "awesome"
  },
  // Read only on server and Writable on Server
  privateMetadata:{
    "role": "awesomesauce"
  },
  // Read / Write anywhere
  unsafeMetadata:{
    "role": "awesomeawesome"
  }
});

User metadata | Clerk

User objects hold a set of metadata that can be used internally to store arbitrary information.

parthmmm•2y ago

https://discord.com/channels/966627436387266600/1096538539895836803/1096578348060262431 then, on the frontend you can get the user's role and display the corresponding component/page

Janic•2y ago

You may add a role attribute to your user model in your database as string like 'customer' | 'business'. When a user is authenticated you can show the views according to this attribute. This approach works well with next-auth. At least this would be a more common version of authorization.

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How to let 2 types of users to login to my app - customers and businesses