electron-authentication-app VS django-oauth-toolkit

So I've build an electron js desktop application(basic quick-start app with some additional things). At this moment a feature which I want to implement is, I want to get the amount of time the electron app is running on the screen. So in more simpler words, time will be started when the application is opened and time will end when the app is closed. At first I thought I can use web-sockets (preferably in the main process-as it supports node API calls) and a time library such as moment.js so at the end I can send that time(e.g. in minutes) to some no-sql database (with some additional info like user name, id, photo- you can refer my repo https://github.com/shubham2924/electron-authentication-app where you can find how I'm getting these user details after user authentication & I've already set up backend local server with express).

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Just to be clear: I'm asking for LDAP to be one possible choice. If an installation wants to use LDAP BIND they can use that, or if the want to use SAML they could use that, or OATH. But not at the same time: you get to choose one.

Django Authentication system for example has a User object that allows different backends to feed into it:

* https://django-auth-ldap.readthedocs.io/

* https://django-oauth-toolkit.readthedocs.io/

* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22668434/saml-with-djang...

You would need to store whatever identifier the oauth provider gives you along with access and refresh tokens. That said, I wouldn't try to implement this from scratch, since it is not trivial. Try django-oauth-toolkit

Thankfully you don't need to implement this giant standard yourself. You can use the excellent Django OAuth Toolkit package. They also have a specific section in their documentation for using it with DRF.

I would suggest token auth as it is stateless, secure and can be used on multiple devices. OAuth/OAuth2 is the industry standard at the moment but you can also use a simple JWT token signature. On top of this, Django REST framework offers a lot of libraries for this purpose e.g. django-rest-framework-simplejwt, django-rest-framework-social-oauth2, django-oauth-toolkit, and more.