| Shield | guardian | |
|---|---|---|
| - | 4 | |
| 195 | 3,384 | |
| - | 0.2% | |
| 1.2 | 3.2 | |
| over 5 years ago | 14 days ago | |
| Elixir | Elixir | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Shield
Posts with mentions or reviews of Shield.
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We haven't tracked posts mentioning Shield yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
guardian
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-17.
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Building JSON API w/ Authentication as a backend for a mobile app?
As for the original question, OP you should check out https://github.com/ueberauth/guardian if you want to roll your own auth. If not rolling you own you can just use a standard Oauth provider and validate their tokens (surprise they are JWTs) in you backend using their public keys.
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Complete, Production-Ready Phoenix Reference Applications
AuthN: For authentication, I'd look at the built-in auth generator. If you need to add JWT things, joken and/or guardian can probably meet your needs.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Shield and guardian you can also consider the following projects:
doorman - Tools to make Plug, and Phoenix authentication simple and flexible.
Pow - Robust, modular, and extendable user authentication system
ueberauth - An Elixir Authentication System for Plug-based Web Applications
ueberauth_cas - Central Authentication Service strategy for Überauth
coherence - Coherence is a full featured, configurable authentication system for Phoenix
ueberauth_auth0 - Auth0 OAuth2 strategy for Überauth.
htpasswd - Apache httpasswd file reader/writer in Elixir
oauth2 - An Elixir OAuth 2.0 Client Library
github_oauth
Paseto - An Elixir implementation of Paseto (Platform-Agnostic Security Tokens)