How to create Email Verification using NextJS

Email verification is a vital part of user authentication as it ensures inputed user email is correct and it validates without a doubt the credibility of the provided authentication credentials. Implementing this feature can be a drag so I am going to try to show you how I do it.

• First set up your nextJs project

create a lib folder and inside the folder create an actions.js file that will contain the registration logic

install these dependencies: using npm I nodemailer jsonwebtoken bcryptjs ejs

connect your database

create a sendMail function in a separate file

create a mail template

implement your action.js like thus

then use the logic in a registration form

you should be able to send the user a link to verify their mail when this is done