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title: "Authenticating users in Astro using Neon Postgres and Lucia Auth"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/authenticating-users-in-astro-using-neon-postgres-and-lucia-auth-z1sl7ehg3
source_url: https://neon.com/blog/authenticating-users-in-astro-using-neon-postgres-and-lucia-auth
type: article
source: "Neon"
published: 2026-07-09T06:57:53.265Z
updated: 2026-07-09T07:01:50.534Z
tags: ["authentication", "postgresql", "astro"]
reading_time: 14
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# Authenticating users in Astro using Neon Postgres and Lucia Auth

**[Neon](https://daily.dev/sources/neontech)** · 14 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

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.

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Tags: [#authentication](https://daily.dev/tags/authentication), [#postgresql](https://daily.dev/tags/postgresql), [#astro](https://daily.dev/tags/astro)

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