We are going to use special endpoint that Directus provides us, and send new user information using Next.js frontend. 

In this episode we are going to implement  signup functionality for our Directus and Next.js app.  You will see, this is very easy.

User Sign Up

In this a bit longer episode we are going to take a look at user authentication that comes with Strapi, and we are going to learn how to implement it into our Next.js app. This is not very hard to do once you undertand the logic behind it and learn how to use JWT (JSON Web Tokens) for authenticating your users.

In this episode we are going to create user authentication for our Next.js and Strapi website using JSON Web Tokens or JWT.

User Authentication

In the [last episode](http://watch-learn.com/video-tutorials/making-websites-with-october-cms-part-20-frontend-forms) I told you that it would be a good idea to protect our contact form, so that only registered can input data into our database. In this episode I'm going to show you how to do exactly that, using the _User_ plugin for October CMS.

I'm also going to show you how you can create _Register_, _Login_ and _Profile_ pages for your site and how to setup a sign out link.

In this episode we are going to setup User plugin for October CMS, and learn how to register and login users and also how to protect our pages from unauthorized  access.