A plugin for Strapi Headless CMS that provides ability to sing-in/sing-up to an application by link had sent to email. A plugin works together with Strapi User Permissions Plugin and extends it functionality. For working with emails a plugin use Strapi Email Plugin.

Install Strapi with this Quickstart command to create a Strapi project instantly:

• (Use yarn to install the Strapi project (recommended). Install yarn with these docs.)

# with yarn
yarn create strapi-app my-project --quickstart

# with npm/npx
npx create-strapi-app my-project --quickstart

This command generates a brand new project with the default features (authentication, permissions, content management, content type builder & file upload). The Quickstart command installs Strapi using a SQLite database which is used for prototyping in development.

• Configure the Strapi email plugin ( official documentation )

• Add the strapi-plugin-passwordless plugin

yarn add strapi-plugin-passwordless@latest

# or

npm i -S strapi-plugin-passwordless@latest

• After successful installation you've to build a fresh package that includes plugin UI. To archive that simply use:

yarn build && yarn develop

# or

npm run build && npm run develop

• or just run Strapi in the development mode with --watch-admin option:

yarn develop --watch-admin

#or

npm run develop --watch-admin

The Passwordless Login plugin should appear in the Plugins section of Strapi sidebar after you run app again.

Before using the services make a sure that endpoints open for unauthorized users.

POST /passwordless/send-link
{"email": "user@email.com"}

GET /passwordless/login?loginToken={tokenFromEmail} 

Response:

{
  "jwt":  "...jwt auth token..."
  "user": {
    ...strapi user...
  }
}

sendLoginLink(email: String): PasswordlessSendLinkPayload!
loginPasswordless(loginToken: String): PasswordlessLoginPayload!

• strapi-plugin-passwordless@3.x - version for strapi v3
• strapi-plugin-passwordless@4.x - version for strapi v4 (not ready yet, WIP)

Feel free to fork and make a Pull Request to this plugin project. All the input is warmly welcome!

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MIT License Copyright (c) Andrey Kucherenko.