File length: 4327
# Quickstart -  Next Steps
Source: https://supertokens.com/docs/quickstart/next-steps

## Overview

Now that you have completed the quickstart guide there are a few more things that you need to take care of on the road towards a production ready authentication experience.

## Configure the Core Service

If you have signed up and deployed a SuperTokens environment already, you can skip this step.
Otherwise, please follow these instructions to use the correct **SuperTokens Core** instance in your application.

The steps show you how to connect to a **SuperTokens Managed Service Environment**.
If you want to self host the core instance please check the [following guide](/docs/deployment/self-host-supertokens).

### 1. Sign up for a SuperTokens account

Open this [page](https://supertokens.com/auth) in order to access the account creation page.
Select the account that you want to use and wait for the action to complete.

### 2. Create a deployment

<img
	alt="Integration with SuperTokens SDKs"
	width="700px"
	src="/img/quickstart-next-steps-0.png"
/>

After you have signed up, you can skip over the initial wizard that generates an example application.
You already have created one by going though the quickstart guide.
Once you are on the main dashboard page, select a region that is closest to where your services are hosted.
Click **Deploy** and wait for the action to complete.

Our internal service will deploy a separate environment based on your selection.
After this process is complete, the UI will render the new list of deployments.

:::info

The initial setup flow only configures a development environment.
In order to use SuperTokens in production, you will have to create a separate deployment.

:::

### 3. Connect the Backend SDK with SuperTokens 🔌

<img
	alt="SuperTokens managed service dashboard connectionURI and API key"
	width="700px"
	src="/img/quickstart-next-steps-1.png"
/>

Select the newly created deployment in order to access its details.
Copy the `Connection URI` and `API Key` values from this page and paste them in your backend code.

<Tabs>

<Tab value="nodejs">

```tsx

supertokens.init({
	// highlight-start
	supertokens: {
		connectionURI: "<CONNECTION_URI>",
		apiKey: "<API_KEY>",
	},
	// highlight-end
	appInfo: {
		apiDomain: "...",
		appName: "...",
		websiteDomain: "...",
	},
	recipeList: [],
});
```

</Tab>
<Tab value="go">

```go
  </ReferenceCard>
	<ReferenceCard href="/docs/authentication/email-password/hooks-and-overrides">
  <ReferenceCard.Title>Post Sign In Actions</ReferenceCard.Title>
  <ReferenceCard.Description>Add custom logic in the authentication flow.</ReferenceCard.Description>
  </ReferenceCard>
</ReferenceCard.Grid>

## Explore Additional Features

You can also review the additional features that **SuperTokens** exposes.
Those can help you extend the authentication implementation on different levels.

<ReferenceCard.Grid>
    <ReferenceCard href="/docs/deployment/self-host-supertokens">
      <ReferenceCard.Title>Self Host SuperTokens Core</ReferenceCard.Title>
      <ReferenceCard.Description>Run the SuperTokens in your own infrastructure.</ReferenceCard.Description>
      </ReferenceCard>
	<ReferenceCard href="/docs/migration/overview">
      <ReferenceCard.Title>Migration Guide</ReferenceCard.Title>
      <ReferenceCard.Description>Migrate your data from other authentication providers.</ReferenceCard.Description>
      </ReferenceCard>
	<ReferenceCard href="/docs/additional-verification/mfa/introduction">
      <ReferenceCard.Title>Multi Factor Authentication</ReferenceCard.Title>
      <ReferenceCard.Description>Set up additional authentication layers in you sign in process.</ReferenceCard.Description>
      </ReferenceCard>
	<ReferenceCard href="/docs/post-authentication/dashboard/introduction">
      <ReferenceCard.Title>User Management Dashboard</ReferenceCard.Title>
      <ReferenceCard.Description>Administrate your users from the SuperTokens Dashboard.</ReferenceCard.Description>
      </ReferenceCard>
	<ReferenceCard href="/docs/additional-verification/user-roles/introduction">
  <ReferenceCard.Title>User Roles and Permissions</ReferenceCard.Title>
  <ReferenceCard.Description>Adjust the authorization settings in your application.</ReferenceCard.Description>
  </ReferenceCard>
</ReferenceCard.Grid>