api_guard VS devise-api

Compare api_guard vs devise-api and see what are their differences.

api_guard

JWT authentication solution for Rails APIs (by Gokul595)
ruby-on-rails rails-gem API Authentication Ruby Rails JWT api-guard rails-authentication api-authentication api-auth rails-api rails-auth ruby-jwt rails-plugins
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devise-api

The devise-api gem is a convenient way to add authentication to your Ruby on Rails application using the devise gem. It provides support for access tokens and refresh tokens, which allow you to authenticate API requests and keep the user's session active for a longer period of time on the client side (by nejdetkadir)
Devise devise-gem-extension devise-jwt devise-token-auth Rails rails-api rails-api-backend rails-gem devise-api devise-api-authenticatable devise-oauth devise-tokens
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api_guard

Posts with mentions or reviews of api_guard. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-01.
  • Anyone used API Guard gem before?
    1 project | /r/rails | 22 Mar 2022
  • Help with Rails API + React
    2 projects | /r/rails | 1 May 2021
    I built a Rails authenticated API for my react native app using api_guard (https://github.com/Gokul595/api_guard) and it works great. I evaluated a lot of different solutions (knock, devise, jwt_sessions, etc.) and api_guard has the best features out of the box for JWT and easy to set up. If you are thinking about option 2, look into api_guard.
  • What do you use for user authentication on an API only app?
    2 projects | /r/rails | 3 Feb 2021
    https://github.com/Gokul595/api_guard is a nice little gem for API auth using JWTs. Most of it is honestly not that hard to implement yourself though

devise-api

Posts with mentions or reviews of devise-api. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-28.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing api_guard and devise-api you can also consider the following projects:

rodauth-rails - Rails integration for Rodauth authentication framework

devise_masquerade - Extension for devise, enable login as functionality. Add link to the masquerade_path(resource) and use it.

graphql_devise - GraphQL interface on top devise_token_auth

authentication-zero - An authentication system generator for Rails applications.

activity_notification - Integrated user activity notifications for Ruby on Rails

otp-jwt - One time password (email, SMS) authentication support for HTTP APIs.

rails-base-app - An example of Rails 7 and Vue 3 app which is using Vite, and includes Docker configs for building production images and some of the useful tools to start your projects

JWT - A ruby implementation of the RFC 7519 OAuth JSON Web Token (JWT) standard.

Exception Handler - Ruby on Rails Custom Error Pages

Clearance - Rails authentication with email & password.

api_guard vs rodauth-rails devise-api vs devise_masquerade api_guard vs graphql_devise devise-api vs authentication-zero api_guard vs activity_notification devise-api vs activity_notification api_guard vs otp-jwt devise-api vs rails-base-app api_guard vs JWT devise-api vs Exception Handler api_guard vs Clearance devise-api vs graphql_devise