authorize VS pow

Compare authorize vs pow and see what are their differences.

authorize

Rule based authorization for Elixir (by jfrolich)

pow

Zero-configuration Rack server for Mac OS X (by basecamp)
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over 4 years ago almost 4 years ago
Elixir CoffeeScript
MIT License MIT License
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authorize

Posts with mentions or reviews of authorize. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

pow

Posts with mentions or reviews of pow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-26.
  • Richard Schneeman's How to Open Source book is out! 🤩
    4 projects | /r/ruby | 26 Sep 2022
    Is this the POW you're talking about? https://github.com/basecamp/pow
  • Doctree
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Apr 2022
  • Apple Monterey reserves port 5000, a common web development port
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Nov 2021
    I don't think IANA explicitly reserved .dev. It was made popular as a local dev domain by Basecamp's Pow[1]. IANA only defines .test, .example, .invalid, .local, and .localhost as reserved (with .onion being the latest addition in 2015[2])

    Though in this list, only .test and .example are marked as non-special and must be resolved normally by RFC 6761, and .local is reserved for mDNS by RFC 6762. In this list, .test would have been the most appropriate for Pow to use.

    CydeWeys (Tech Lead of Google Registry) has commented on HN in the past that they did not anticipated people weren't following the best practices[3], which makes me think IANA should have given .dev the same treatment as .onion: by explicitly reserving them (but this is another topic to discuss).

    [1]: https://github.com/basecamp/pow

    [2]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7686.html

    [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=CydeWeys

What are some alternatives?

When comparing authorize and pow you can also consider the following projects:

bodyguard - Simple authorization conventions for Phoenix apps

doctree - First-class library documentation for every language (based on tree-sitter), with symbol search & more. Lightweight single binary, run locally or self-host. Surfaces usage examples via Sourcegraph.

canada - Easy permission definitions in Elixir apps!

htpasswd - Apache httpasswd file reader/writer in Elixir

Pundit - Simple authorization helpers for Elixir stucts, like Ruby's Pundit

ueberauth - An Elixir Authentication System for Plug-based Web Applications

sheriff - Build simple and robust authorization systems with just Elixir and Plug

guardian - Elixir Authentication

canary

aws-elixir - AWS clients for Elixir

speakeasy - Middleware based authorization for Absinthe GraphQL powered by Bodyguard

oban - 💎 Robust job processing in Elixir, backed by modern PostgreSQL and SQLite3