branca
:key: Secure alternative to JWT. Authenticated Encrypted API Tokens for Go. (by hako)
scs
HTTP Session Management for Go (by alexedwards)
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branca
Posts with mentions or reviews of branca.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-02.
- Paseto is everything you love about JWT without any of the design deficits
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SAML is insecure by design
Better alternatives would be PASETO or Branca.
scs
Posts with mentions or reviews of scs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-04.
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Authentication system using Golang and Sveltekit - Login and Logout
Although there are pretty good session managers in the Go ecosystem such as alexedwards/scs, golangcollege/session and gorilla/sessions, we won't use any but using this great guide, we'll write our own. This is to keep our project's dependence on external packages at the barest minimum.
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Sessions in Golang
github.com/alexedwards/scs is quite pleasant to work with.
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What are the best alternatives to gorilla session?
This one works ok: https://github.com/alexedwards/scs
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Standard library, Fiber, Iris, Gin, ... where does one even begin with writing production web apps in Go?
I'm a big fan of Alex Edwards' book "Let's Go", and he uses his own Sessions library: https://github.com/alexedwards/scs which you can find in the Authentication section of Awesome Go. So that's a great source as well.
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How do you do Authentication?
Server side sessions using alexedwards/scs.
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REST API + limit number of seats
Unfortunately I haven't written a cookie/session based auth flow in Golang before so can't recommend any libraries. A quick google led me to https://github.com/alexedwards/scs which may or may not be helpful.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing branca and scs you can also consider the following projects:
paseto - Platform-Agnostic Security Tokens implementation in GO (Golang)
go-guardian - Go-Guardian is a golang library that provides a simple, clean, and idiomatic way to create powerful modern API and web authentication.
sjwt - Simple JWT Golang
otpgen - Library to generate TOTP/HOTP codes
paseto - Platform-Agnostic Security Tokens
cookiestxt - cookiestxt implement parser of cookies txt format
securecookie - Fast, secure and efficient secure cookie encoder/decoder
scope - Easily Manage OAuth2 Scopes In Go
jeff - 🍍Jeff provides the simplest way to manage web sessions in Go.
go-email-normalizer - Golang library for providing a canonical representation of email address.