Devise Token Auth vs Knock

Devise Token Auth

Token based authentication for Rails JSON APIs. Designed to work with jToker and ng-token-auth. (by lynndylanhurley)

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Knock

Seamless JWT authentication for Rails API (by nsarno)

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Devise Token Auth		Knock
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7	Mentions	3
3,507	Stars	2,089
-	Growth	-
4.5	Activity	1.4
7 days ago	Latest Commit	about 3 years ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
Do What The F*ck You Want To Public License	License	MIT License

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Devise Token Auth

Posts with mentions or reviews of Devise Token Auth. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-04.

Managing redirects to a subdomain after authentication in a React/Rails application using React Router
1 project | /r/codehunter | 22 Apr 2022

I have a React single page application using React Router that hooks into a Rails 5 API. The Rails application uses devise_token_auth for authentication. I've successfully created an authentication process that stores the user state in a Redux store on the client side.
Is it possible to retrieve the user index with devise ?
1 project | /r/rails | 21 Feb 2022

Did you send an authorization header with your api call? The error is pretty clear — the request is unauthorized. Devise is expecting session cookies, but your api should use tokens. https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/devise_token_auth
Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs
22 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Feb 2022

I mentioned Identity in my first comment. I've never found it as simple as Devise though - especially in an API only setting.
With Devise there's a third-party Gem you can use called devise_token_auth which deals with everything automatically.
https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/devise_token_auth
Working around un-maintained redux-token-auth for redux and react 17 upgrade
4 projects | dev.to | 26 Dec 2021

redux-token-auth is a great library. What it mainly does is it provides a plug and play auth implementation functionality for ruby on rails based APIs which implement popular devise_token_auth for auth handling.
Rails API Authentication with JWT Options
2 projects | /r/rails | 9 Dec 2021

have you looked at https://github.com/waiting-for-dev/devise-jwt or https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/devise_token_auth
Best project setup for Rails+React with "remember me" feature
2 projects | /r/rails | 16 Oct 2021

I'd prefer to have a standalone rails API and a react client separately, but that's not mandatory. I discovered a gem called devise_token_auth and it didn't seem to have refresh tokens but it refreshed the tokens on every request anyway so I was pretty happy with it.
Devise, The Swiss Army Knife of Rails User Authentication.
2 projects | dev.to | 4 Feb 2021

As a side note, also check out devise_token_auth here

Knock

Posts with mentions or reviews of Knock. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-01.

what's your hidden gem package?
6 projects | /r/node | 1 Dec 2021
What resources do you recommend to learn about Rails APIs?
6 projects | /r/rails | 29 Apr 2021

Authentication - https://github.com/nsarno/knock
Ruby on Rails + Auth0: Authenticating your API with an external authentication service
4 projects | dev.to | 28 Feb 2021

In 2019 I wrote a post with this same subject and an extra tool: Knock.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Devise Token Auth and Knock you can also consider the following projects:

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

Devise - Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.

Doorkeeper - Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Ruby on Rails / Grape.

devise-jwt - JWT token authentication with devise and rails

OmniAuth - OmniAuth is a flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware.

Sorcery - Magical Authentication

openapi-typescript-codegen - NodeJS library that generates Typescript or Javascript clients based on the OpenAPI specification

warden-github-rails - Use GitHub as authorization and more. Use organizations and teams as means of authorization by simply wrapping your rails routes in a block. Also useful to get a user's details through OAuth.