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Confusion upon email signup while waiting for the verification link

Open Martinsos opened this issue 9 months ago • 10 comments

I tried signing up into my newly created open-saas app once I got it started, I signed up with email and pass, and I got a message that now I need to click on my verification link in my email.

But, of course, I got no verification link in the email, since Dummy provider is used (which I might not be aware of if I didn't know Wasp, and would probably keep checking the email).

So even though I knew I am not getting an email, I actually didn’t know what to do! What now? I looked into the terminal (which if I didn't know Wasp, I probably wouldn't have thought of), but no message there either. I guess we set the flag that no verification is needed?

So I finally tried logging in and that worked! But I would never think of trying logging in actually if I didn't know this much about Wasp, I would instead keep checking that email, and try other stuff, probably try signing again.

I think we need to tell them somehow what to do here.

Possible solution might be to print email in the terminal. But how will they know they need to look there? We can extend the message in the app that they get upon signup, regarding checking the email, so it says they are using Dummy provider and should look in their terminal, not in email. In Wasp Generator, we can potentially do this if we see that Dummy provider is used! Yeah, I think this could be cool solution.

Additionaly, I noticed we do mention in comments in main.wasp file that they should check server logs (we don’t tell them those will be in the terminal though! As a new user, I probably am not sure what "server logs" means), but I haven’t read that at this point yet, so didn’t know about this. Nor was anything printed to the terminal actually, so this comment is outdated / wrong also.

Actual Wasp user went through this confusion also: https://discord.com/channels/686873244791210014/1236335436918689832/1236335436918689832 .

Martinsos avatar May 22 '24 12:05 Martinsos