cloudfront-auth VS express-openid-connect

Compare cloudfront-auth vs express-openid-connect and see what are their differences.

cloudfront-auth

An AWS CloudFront Lambda@Edge function to authenticate requests using Google Apps, Microsoft, Auth0, OKTA, and GitHub login (by Widen)

express-openid-connect

An Express.js middleware to protect OpenID Connect web applications. (by auth0)
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cloudfront-auth express-openid-connect
6 3
593 437
- 2.7%
0.0 8.5
over 1 year ago 9 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
ISC License MIT License
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cloudfront-auth

Posts with mentions or reviews of cloudfront-auth. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-01.
  • I just want to host a static website with Cognito as a guard. How can I do it as simple as possible?
    2 projects | /r/aws | 1 Dec 2022
    If you already have existing users in google, github, or something like that, maybe look at this https://github.com/Widen/cloudfront-auth and skip cognito.
  • Deploy EventCatalog to AWS CloudFront with Google SSO Access Control via Terraform
    3 projects | dev.to | 17 Jul 2022
    This article shows how to deploy your own EventCatalog in AWS CloudFront via Terraform and updates to the Catalog via CI/CD (CircleCi in this case, but can be easily applied to other CI systems). It also shows how to use Lambda@Edge to implement Google SSO / OpenID Connect via the Widen/cloudfront-auth Project.
  • Google login to S3 bucket website?
    2 projects | /r/aws | 10 Jul 2022
  • Protect your Amazon CloudFront content — Authorization@Edge using cookies
    2 projects | dev.to | 23 Mar 2022
    aws.amazon.com Recognition The earlier AWS blog that investigated wiring up Cognito authentication with Lambda@Edge: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/authorizationedge-how-to-use-lambdaedge-and-json-web-tokens-to-enhance-web-application-security/ A gist that shows how to add Basic Authentication using Lambda@Edge: https://gist.github.com/lmakarov/e5984ec16a76548ff2b278c06027f1a4 An open-source project that uses a similar approach to secure CloudFront distributions, but does not yet support Cognito (at the time of this writing): https://github.com/Widen/cloudfront-auth Additional resources Check out the code on GitHub to see how the sample solution is built. You can deploy and run the code yourself: https://github.com/aws-samples/cloudfront-authorization-at-edge. You can deploy the Amazon Cognito resources from the sample solution directly from the AWS Serverless Application Repository. 10
  • Hosting static site on S3 behind authentication
    2 projects | /r/aws | 27 Jan 2021
    1) Make sure your bucket is private. 2) Set up CloudFront with Origin Access Identity 3) Use Lambda@Edge for authentication.

express-openid-connect

Posts with mentions or reviews of express-openid-connect. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-31.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cloudfront-auth and express-openid-connect you can also consider the following projects:

node-oidc-provider - OpenID Certified™ OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server implementation for Node.js

google-one-tap - Google One Tap Login

auth0.js - Auth0 headless browser sdk

jwt-decode - Decode JWT tokens; useful for browser applications.

Grant - OAuth Proxy

yup-oauth2 - An oauth2 client implementation providing the Device, Installed, Service Account, and several more flows.

SuperTokens Community - Open source alternative to Auth0 / Firebase Auth / AWS Cognito

gsts - Obtain and store AWS STS credentials to interact with Amazon services by authenticating via G Suite SAML.

nginx-openid-connect - Reference implementation of OpenID Connect integration for NGINX Plus

auth0-nodejs-webapp-sample - Auth0 Integration Samples for Node Web Applications

node-jwks-rsa - A library to retrieve RSA public keys from a JWKS (JSON Web Key Set) endpoint.

passport-steam - Steam (OpenID) authentication strategy for Passport and Node.js.