--- title: A Complete Guide to Next.js Authorization | daily.dev description: Learn about authorization in Next.js using Cerbos, an open-source authorization project. Understand how authorization works, how to integrate it into a Next.js... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-complete-guide-to-next-js-authorization-kum2ajvst twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A Complete Guide to Next.js Authorization | daily.dev og:description: Learn about authorization in Next.js using Cerbos, an open-source authorization project. Understand how authorization works, how to integrate it into a Next.js... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-complete-guide-to-next-js-authorization-kum2ajvst og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/kUm2AJVsT.png og:image:alt: A Complete Guide to Next.js Authorization og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A Complete Guide to Next.js Authorization **[Cerbos](https://daily.dev/sources/cerbos)** · 3 min read · 60 upvotes · 8 comments ## Summary Learn about authorization in Next.js using Cerbos, an open-source authorization project. Understand how authorization works, how to integrate it into a Next.js application, and implement attribute-based access control (ABAC) and role-based access control (RBAC). ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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