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Ask HN: What type of Auth are you using on your side projects?

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Post by honksillet » Sat, Oct 05, 2024, 4:29 PM UTC

I was looking at the Supabase docs and it was nice to see a long list of Auth work flows supported/documented. So my question is, here in October 2024, what are y'all using for Auth on your side projects. Password based, social, email, something else? If you are using social, which social do you support? Is there any public data on which types of Auth have the best conversion/bounce rates? And for you, which Auth is just easy to support long term and which just ends up being a drag? TY

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Post by sandreas » Sat, Oct 05, 2024, 5:10 PM UTC

Social auth almost always means oauth (2.0). It's good to have this, because you could technically Deploy your own oauth provider.

However, for my smaller personal side projects I rely on a simple JWT auth based on JWT, QR-codes and https-only AS secure AS possible cookies.

I plan to try openid but i did not habe the time yet.

If you have a userbase, a local username/password login should be at least an Option...

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Post by ldenoue » Sat, Oct 05, 2024, 6:33 PM UTC

I use firebase auth with Google, Facebook and email (magic link)

This is live at https://screenrun.app/

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Post by gedy » Sat, Oct 05, 2024, 6:48 PM UTC

Auth0 and FusionAuth

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Post by xena » Sat, Oct 05, 2024, 6:52 PM UTC

A lot of my side projects are only visible over a VPN. I have no auth for them as it is not needed.

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Post by rch » Sat, Oct 05, 2024, 6:52 PM UTC

gedy wrote: post #4

Auth0 and FusionAuth

+1 for FusionAuth

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Post by John23832 » Sat, Oct 05, 2024, 6:57 PM UTC

Supabase

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Post by antonpirker » Sat, Oct 05, 2024, 6:58 PM UTC

None or username/pwd

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Post by chgs » Sat, Oct 05, 2024, 7:02 PM UTC

X509 certs. They work nicely in an offline situation.

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Post by infogulch » Sat, Oct 05, 2024, 7:04 PM UTC

I was thinking Kanidm [1] for authentication and SpciceDB [2] for authorization would be a good combo, but I haven't gotten around to trying it yet.

[1]: https://kanidm.com/

[2]: https://authzed.com/docs/spicedb/getting-started/discovering...

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