You can get set up with Kinde in a few short steps that will only take about 15 minutes.
Go to app.kinde.com/register and create an account.
Download one of our Starter Kits from Github in your preferred language/framework.
Additional language-specific setup steps live in the README.md
file of each starter kit.
A .env_sample
file has been provided for you in each Starter Kit. Make a copy of this file and rename it to .env
. Update this file with your app keys.
- Go to Settings > Applications.
- Select View Details on the application tile you want App keys for. If you haven’t added any applications, add one now or use the default regular web application.
- Copy the:
- Client ID
- Client secret
- Token host (also known as Base issuer URL)
- On the same screen, enter your callback URLs. Note that your preferred starter kit includes
Allowed callback URLs
andAllowed logout redirect URLs
. - Load up the starter kit app on your local machine.
- Open the starter kit in the browser by visiting
http://localhost:3000
and select Sign up. By default, Kinde uses passwordless sign in, but you can set up whatever authentication you prefer. - Sign up using passwordless entry. Welcome to the starter kit!
- Back in your Kinde account, look for your first sign up on the Users page.
That’s just the basics! You might also want to:
- Customize your sign up and sign in pages
- Set your own domain
- Add organizations
- Set up authentication
- Import users from a different auth tool
If you want more in-depth guidance, consider booking in to a Kinde demo.
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