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Show HN: Satellizer – Authentication for AngularJS

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Re: Show HN: Satellizer – Authentication for AngularJS

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This is a very nice solution and API for the front-end. It took me a couple part-time months to put together a similar (not modularized) solution for a rewrite of Plunker. There is quite a bit of juggling of information to do to pass around the appropriate information between client, server and auth providers that seems to have been nicely abstracted.

There were three major challenges for me in my implementation and I'm wondering how these could be addressed with Satellizer:

1. Anonymous content creation that can be attributed to a user upon sign-up or sign-in. On Plunker, anonymous users can create 'plunks' that will then attributed to them if they decide to register. This is important to allow streamlined user acquisition.

2. Account merging when someone accidentally creates two different user accounts with different social identities. This gets weird when anonymous content creation is involved since someone could create content while signed out and would need all that content re-attributed when they sign in.

3. Multi-provider authentication. In Plunker, certain features will only be available if the user has linked (for example) Dropbox. This means consumers of the api need to be able to add / remove social identities to / from users.

Hope to hear how you might attack these problems with something like Satellizer (or other people's approaches that have worked).

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