phx_gen_auth

Yeah, phx_gen_auth hasn't landed in main phoenix yet. As another poster mentioned, you should try https://github.com/aaronrenner/phx_gen_auth if you're going to use a generator. You might however get more mileage out of Programming Phoenix[1] where you'd learn what all of the files are for and how to build auth yourself. Plug and Ecto make it quite easy to do password auth. Guardian was popular in the past, but isn't widely used these days. You could use joken, or just roll it yourself. Generally the docs for Elixir libraries are very good, but you have indeed found some poorly documented things. I might suggest scraping together something simple and then trying out parts of the ecosystem that offer something new, like channels, live_view, broadway, or something else that takes advantage of OTP. Otherwise you're only going to see the gaps

Yeah, unfortunately there are still some sharp edges. Was there a particular reason you decided to use the unreleased version of Phoenix 1.6 instead of using the current version of phx_gen_auth (from https://github.com/aaronrenner/phx_gen_auth/)? There's a decent bit of documentation there too. I haven't used guardian (not a fan of JWT) so I can't comment on it.

Thank you for your work on adding user registration and authorization to Phoenix! I'm setting up a new Phoenix app for a side project this weekend and have just run Arron Renner's auth generator[1]. Having user registration out of the box will save a big chunk of time and energy! 1: https://github.com/aaronrenner/phx_gen_auth

There’s already an article on this you can find here: https://dashbit.co/blog/a-new-authentication-solution-for-ph... The GitHub for the generator is here: https://github.com/aaronrenner/phx_gen_auth Basically if you need something different it might be worth forking the generator. I might look at passwordless login at some point.