This guide covers the step-by-step process of building user authentication APIs and HTML pages in Astro application with Lucia Auth and Postgres, powered by Neon. User authentication provides a way to manage user identities and access control in your application. Upon completing the guide, you would have an understanding of how to perform user authentication […]

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Step-by-step guide to building user authentication in an Astro application using Lucia Auth and Neon Serverless Postgres. Covers provisioning a Neon database, setting up the database schema with user and session tables, configuring Lucia Auth with a PostgreSQL adapter, building sign-up/sign-in/sign-out API routes and HTML pages, protecting routes from unauthenticated access, and deploying the finished app to Vercel.

Authenticating users in Astro using Neon Postgres and Lucia Auth

Provisioning a Serverless Postgres powered by Neon

Enabling Server Side Rendering in Astro with Vercel

Setting up a Postgres Database Connection and Schema