Environment Setup

Production deployments require a complete set of environment variables and a MongoDB instance.

Required Variables

Variable	Description
`MONGODB_URI`	MongoDB connection string (local or Atlas)
`MONGODB_DATABASE`	Database name (optional override)
`NEXTAUTH_SECRET`	32+ character secret for signing JWTs
`NEXTAUTH_URL`	Base URL for authentication callbacks

Variable	Description
`EMAIL_WEBHOOK_URL`	Webhook for sending password reset emails
`LOG_LEVEL`	Log verbosity (`debug`, `info`, `warn`, `error`)

Initialize the MongoDB collections and indexes before going live:

npx tsx scripts/init-database.ts

If you need to create additional indexes later, run:

npx tsx scripts/create-indexes.ts