The demo is missing the links for Authentication

[Exadra37]

A demo without links to use the demo makes it less intuitive to use, because it means you need to know how Pow works, and normally demos are for onboard new users of the Library.

[danschultzer]

You're right. I'll be using this repo to ensure that the guides are working (easier to test changes with this already set up), so the master branch only have the first few steps from the readme done.

It makes sense to also have a full demo app too that you can spin up.

[Exadra37]

It makes sense to also have a full demo app too that you can spin up.

As you know from the Elixirforum I have been looking for a Auth solution, and the lack of proper demos in your repos made me giving up in trying to test all your different repos, and in the end going with another package that as working demos that make a breeze to understand how everything fits together.

Despite I was in love by the Pow approach it's too much moving parts to get all working together for someone that is new to the programming language and is trying to understand the best Auth library to use for his use case.

Keep the good working in the Library and maybe try to work on some good working demos to see all Pow repos working together :)

[danschultzer]

Yeah, that's understandable. I've been thinking of taking some inspiration from the new phx.gen.auth generator and have one generator mix task to set up everything so you just need to start up the app with zero configuration.

[danschultzer]

Full app here btw: https://github.com/pow-auth/pow_demo/tree/full-app

[Exadra37]

Thanks for the link to the full-app branch :)

Two things:

First you may want to make clear in the demo that you must search the Logs for the confirmation email link ;)

Second you may want to fix this error after log in:

[danschultzer]

Oh, thanks! Fixed and updated to use Phoenix 1.5 now

I think I got a much better setup in the readme now: https://github.com/pow-auth/pow_demo#pow-demo-app

[danschultzer]

I've added a lot more guides. I will expand later on the full demo app when I've got more time, let me know if you see anything missing 😄

[Exadra37]

I just tries the branch all-extensions and got nothing to try:

No registration or login functionality...

[danschultzer]

Oh right, the readme wasn't too clear about that. Updated and rearranged https://github.com/pow-auth/pow_demo#pow-demo-app so it explicitly states that the master and all-extensions branches only contain the absolute minimum (the routes are still there but no links). Wdyt?

[Exadra37]

Ok it works nows, but just shows links to the register, login and logout.

If I was you I woulld remove all that boilerplate from Phoenix in the Home page and personalize it to your Pow project, and include links to trigger each of the routes.

Demos are crucial to be fully functional, otherwise they are just a waste of time for both the author and to anyone trying them. I don't want to seem harsh, but this is what I do in my work, and your product seems to have a lot of potential, but is lacking in easy on-boarding.

[danschultzer]

Yeah, I agree with you 100%. I'll work on the full-app demo to make it a realistic app with all the functionality you would expect in any production platform, including UI. Thanks for trying this out and the feedback!

[Exadra37]

Just remember to have master being the home for the full featured app, because that way it just works ;)