auth0-java VS next-auth

The animation I'm referring to is the sliding up text in the hero section

Protect endpoints using JWT security with a OpenID Connect IAM like Auth0 or Keycloak Optionally control access to endpoints using RBAC

Auth0 is an adaptable authentication and authorization platform. Auth0 takes out the pain of developing a full authentication system from scratch for your application and managing user credentials by yourself.

First things first, you need an account on the Auth0 platform, so head to their page and create one.

Functions can be triggered in multiple ways: HTTP, Queue, Db, Blob Storage Change and many more. More on this can be found here. This was one of the major reasons why I thought Azure Functions are great. I mostly needed the HTTP and Queue trigger. With HTTP functions comes also the requirement for Authentication and Authorization. I'm using Auth0 as an authentication provider. The implementation is usually straightforward. The frontend obtains an access token and the API validates the token and authenticates the request. OpenID connect is well documented and somewhat easy to use in asp.net core for example. Not with Azure Functions I googled for days, opened an issue and tried everything I could think of and came to the conclusion: Microsoft doesn’t provide you with proper SDKs to handle authentication adequately.

Auth0

There are more and more products getting into the market every day that need to deliver a lot of features. Sometimes those things become super complex, and the main thing they usually don’t have is time. A lot of those parts are engineers issues that can be democratized by open-source solutions. You can use Okta for the identity solution, Add Auth0 for authentication, and then use Permit for authorization and you have easily saved thousands of development hours.

Say that we have decided to use Auth0 for authorization in our architecture. We want to give users with different sets of permissions access to different levels based on their permissions.

NextAuth.js is not perfect. One of the shortcomings is that it currently does not implement federated logout. This means that even if a user signs out of the Next.js app, he does NOT get signed out of the Cognito user pool client. As a consequence, the user is not really being logged out (i.e he is able to login again without providing the credentials). You can read more about this problem in this Github thread.

NextAuth for adding auth

Let's learn a bit about Descope and how to use it with Auth.js (next-auth) to protect our Next.js app with role-based access control (RBAC).

https://github.com/nextauthjs/next-auth/issues/5647#issuecom...

Next Auth CognitoProvider Internal Library: https://github.com/nextauthjs/next-auth/blob/v4/packages/next-auth/src/providers/cognito.ts

I mentioned this in an age-old discussion on NextAuth GitHub repo.

For Auth: https://authjs.dev/ - works like a charm with Svelte https://authjs.dev/reference/sveltekit

NextAuth.js

I'm surprised nobody mentioned https://authjs.dev/