oauth2 vs webauthn

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oauth2		webauthn
	Project
8	Mentions	-
5,135	Stars	165
1.2%	Growth	-
7.4	Activity	0.0
1 day ago	Latest Commit	over 3 years ago
Go	Language	Go
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

oauth2

Posts with mentions or reviews of oauth2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-22.

How to Authenticate a CLI Using OAuth and GitHub in Golang
2 projects | /r/golang | 22 Mar 2023

The guide covers setting up GitHub, using the golang.org/x/oauth2 package, and handling OAuth authentication. The code snippets are easy to follow and can be modified to fit your project's needs.
Authentication for HTMX app
2 projects | /r/htmx | 6 Mar 2023

I personally use golang.org/x/oauth2 to handle OAuth in my app, so I'll use that for this example.
Retrieving authorization JWT from Go CLI program.
4 projects | /r/golang | 9 Mar 2022

I mean using the OAuth2 client library that's maintained as part of the Go project.
What do if no progress in MR about year?
1 project | /r/golang | 10 Sep 2021

My wife sent MR into golang oauth2 library https://github.com/golang/oauth2/pull/450
Looking for a reliable OAuth2 client implementation
2 projects | /r/golang | 9 Jul 2021

Hmm, this might be a relevant issue: https://github.com/golang/oauth2/issues/128 . On the face of it, it looks like https://github.com/coreos/go-oidc is a more thorough implementation...(?)
Handling authentication in Transport - is it good or bad?
1 project | /r/golang | 3 Feb 2021

Handling auth in a Transport is a common pattern, that's what x/oauth2 does for example: https://github.com/golang/oauth2/blob/master/transport.go#L20
Gopher Gold #20 - Wed Nov 18 2020
20 projects | dev.to | 17 Nov 2020

golang/oauth2 (Go): Go OAuth2

webauthn

Posts with mentions or reviews of webauthn . We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning webauthn yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing oauth2 and webauthn you can also consider the following projects:

authelia - The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps

jwt-auth - This package provides json web token (jwt) middleware for goLang http servers

casbin - An authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC, ABAC in Golang: https://discord.gg/S5UjpzGZjN

jwt - This is an implementation of JWT in golang!

goth - Package goth provides a simple, clean, and idiomatic way to write authentication packages for Go web applications.

jwt-go - ARCHIVE - Golang implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT). This project is now maintained at:

go-oauth2-server - A standalone, specification-compliant, OAuth2 server written in Golang.

k6 - A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript - https://k6.io

gologin - Go login handlers for authentication providers (OAuth1, OAuth2)

Gin - Gin is a HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a Martini-like API with much better performance -- up to 40 times faster. If you need smashing performance, get yourself some Gin.

permissions2 - :closed_lock_with_key: Middleware for keeping track of users, login states and permissions