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Step 4: User management dashboard

Initialise the dashboard recipe#

To get started, initialise the Dashboard recipe in the recipeList.

import SuperTokens from "supertokens-node";
import Dashboard from "supertokens-node/recipe/dashboard";

SuperTokens.init({
  appInfo: {
    apiDomain: "...",
    appName: "...",
    websiteDomain: "...",
  },
  recipeList: [
    // TODO: Initialise other recipes
    Dashboard.init(),
  ],
});

Viewing the dashboard#

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The user management dashboard is served by the backend SDK, you have to use your API domain when trying to visit the dashboard.

Navigate to <YOUR_API_DOMAIN>/auth/dashboard to view the dashboard.

Dashboard login screen

Creating dashboard credentials#

Paid Feature

You can create 3 dashboard users* for free.

If you need to create additional users:

  • For self hosted users, please sign up to generate a license key and follow the instructions sent to you by email.
  • For managed service users, please email us.

*: A dashboard user is a user that can log into and view the user management dashboard. These users are independent to the users of your application

When you first setup SuperTokens, there are no credentials created for the dashboard. If you click the "Add a new user" button in the dashboard login screen you can see the command you need to execute in order to create credentials.

Dashboard login screen

To create credentials you need to make a request to SuperTokens core.

  • The example above uses the demo core https://try.supertokens.com, replace this with the connection uri you pass to the backend SDK when initialising SuperTokens.
  • Replace <YOUR-API-KEY> with your API key. If you are using a self hosted SuperTokens core there is no API key by default. In that case you can either skip or ignore the api-key header.
  • Replace <YOUR_EMAIL> and <YOUR_PASSWORD> with the appropriate values.
caution

If using self hosted SuperTokens core, you need to make sure that you add an API key to the core in case it's exposed to the internet. Otherwise anyone will be able to create or modify dashboard users.

You can add an API key to the core by following the instructions "Auth flow customizations" > "SuperTokens core settings" > "Adding API keys" page.

Updating dashboard credentials#

You can update the email or password of existing credentials by using the "Forgot Password" button on the dashboard login page.

Dashboard login screen

To update credentials you need to make a request to SuperTokens core.

  • The example above uses the demo core https://try.supertokens.com, replace this with the connection uri you pass to the backend SDK when initialising SuperTokens.
  • Replace <YOUR-API-KEY> with your API key. If you are using a self hosted SuperTokens core there is no API key by default. In that case you can either skip or ignore the api-key header.
  • Replace <YOUR_EMAIL> and <YOUR_NEW_PASSWORD> with the appropriate values. You can use newEmail instead of newPassword if you want to update the email

Viewing users#

If you have just created your app, you may not have any users to show on the dashboard.

Empty dashboard

Navigate to the your frontend app and create a user (via the sign up flow). On creation, if you head back to the dashboard and refresh the page, you will see that user:

One user in dashboard

User Management#

When you select a user you can view detailed information about the user such as email, phone number, user metadata etc.

One user in dashboardOne user in dashboard

You can edit user information and perform actions such as resetting a user's password or revoke sessions for a user.

One user in dashboard
Note

Some features such as user metadata and email verification have to be enabled in your backend before you can use them in the user management dashboard

Restricting access to dashboard users#

When using the dashboard recipe you can restrict access to certain features by providing a list of emails to be considered as "admins". When a dashboard user logs in with an email not present in this list, they will only be able to perform read operations and all write operations will result in the backend SDKs failing the request.

You can provide an array of emails to the backend SDK when initialising the dashboard recipe:

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  • Not providing an admins array will result in all dashboard users being allowed both read and write operations
  • Providing an empty array as admins will result in all dashboard users having ONLY read access
import SuperTokens from "supertokens-node";
import Dashboard from "supertokens-node/recipe/dashboard";

SuperTokens.init({
  appInfo: {
    apiDomain: "...",
    appName: "...",
    websiteDomain: "...",
  },
  recipeList: [
    // TODO: Initialise other recipes
    Dashboard.init({
      admins: [
        "johndoe@gmail.com",
      ],
    }),
  ],
});

Content Security Policy#

If you return a Content-Security-Policy header in from your backend, you will need to include the following directives for the user management dashboard to work correctly

script-src:
  'self' 
  'unsafe-inline' 
  https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/supertokens/

img-src:
  https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/supertokens/
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