Login or Create via Email

import React, { useCallback } from 'react';
import { Text, TouchableOpacity, View } from 'react-native';
import { useStytch } from '@stytch/react-native';

export const Login = () => {
const stytch = useStytch();
const sendPasscode = useCallback(() => {
  stytch.otps.email.loginOrCreate('sandbox@stytch.com', {
    expiration_minutes: 5,
  });
}, [stytch]);
return (
  <View>
    <TouchableOpacity onPress={sendPasscode}>
      <Text>Send passcode</Text>
    </TouchableOpacity>
  </View>
);
};

{
  "status_code": 200,
  "request_id": "request-id-test-b05c992f-ebdc-489d-a754-c7e70ba13141",
  "method_id": "email-test-81bf03a8-86e1-4d95-bd44-bb3495224953"
}

import React, { useCallback } from 'react';
import { Text, TouchableOpacity, View } from 'react-native';
import { useStytch } from '@stytch/react-native';

export const Login = () => {
const stytch = useStytch();
const sendPasscode = useCallback(() => {
  stytch.otps.email.loginOrCreate('sandbox@stytch.com', {
    expiration_minutes: 5,
  });
}, [stytch]);
return (
  <View>
    <TouchableOpacity onPress={sendPasscode}>
      <Text>Send passcode</Text>
    </TouchableOpacity>
  </View>
);
};

{
  "status_code": 200,
  "request_id": "request-id-test-b05c992f-ebdc-489d-a754-c7e70ba13141",
  "method_id": "email-test-81bf03a8-86e1-4d95-bd44-bb3495224953"
}

import React, { useCallback } from 'react';
import { Text, TouchableOpacity, View } from 'react-native';
import { useStytch } from '@stytch/react-native';

export const Login = () => {
const stytch = useStytch();
const sendPasscode = useCallback(() => {
  stytch.otps.email.loginOrCreate('sandbox@stytch.com', {
    expiration_minutes: 5,
  });
}, [stytch]);
return (
  <View>
    <TouchableOpacity onPress={sendPasscode}>
      <Text>Send passcode</Text>
    </TouchableOpacity>
  </View>
);
};

{
  "status_code": 200,
  "request_id": "request-id-test-b05c992f-ebdc-489d-a754-c7e70ba13141",
  "method_id": "email-test-81bf03a8-86e1-4d95-bd44-bb3495224953"
}

Wraps the login_or_create via email API endpoint. Call this method to send an email passcode to new or existing users.

Parameters

string

required

The email address of the user to send the one-time passcode to. You may use sandbox@stytch.com to test this endpoint, see Sandbox Values for more detail.

Configuration

object

Additional configuration.

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expiration_minutes

int

Set the expiration for the one-time passcode, in minutes. The minimum expiration is 1 minute and the maximum is 10 minutes. The default expiration is 2 minutes.

Use a custom template for login emails. By default, it will use your default email template. Templates can be added in the Stytch dashboard using our built-in customization options or custom HTML templates with type “OTP - Login”.

Use a custom template for sign-up emails. By default, it will use your default email template. Templates can be added in the Stytch dashboard using our built-in customization options or custom HTML templates with type “OTP - Sign-up”.

locale

string

Used to determine which language to use when sending the user this delivery method. Parameter is an IETF BCP 47 language tag, e.g. “en”. Currently supported languages are English (“en”), Spanish (“es”), French (“fr”) and Brazilian Portuguese (“pt-br”); if no value is provided, the copy defaults to English.

Response

method_id

string

The email_id or phone_id involved in the given authentication.

request_id

string

Globally unique UUID that is returned with every API call. This value is important to log for debugging purposes; we may ask for this value to help identify a specific API call when helping you debug an issue.

status_code

number

The HTTP status code of the response. Stytch follows standard HTTP response status code patterns, e.g. 2XX values equate to success, 3XX values are redirects, 4XX are client errors, and 5XX are server errors.

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