Glossary

There are some terms we use in this documentation that may not be known to every reader. Here is an explanation for some of them:

• application / application-side / universal-application: This references all Nuxt code of your app that is universally rendered. In short this means that that code is rendered on the server-side and on the client-side, so all JS in it is executed twice. This is an important distinction, as some things may behave different on the server-side than on the client-side. We use application... to denote something that will be universally rendered
• server / server-side: This references all Nuxt code of your app that will run only on your server. For example, all code inside the ~/server directory should only ever run on the server
• sessions: A set of information that persists for a longer duration, e.g., the username and email that persists while your user is logged in
• authentication: Verifying that someone is who they claims to be, e.g., by asking them for a username and password or by asking Google to verify it (OAuth) and then trust their result
• provider: Could mean two things in the context of nuxt-auth:
  • The authentication provider you select on the nuxt-auth module level by setting the provider.type key to either local or authjs
  • The OAuth authentication provider you choose to use in combination with the authjs module

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