passport-local vs node-openid-client

passport-local

Username and password authentication strategy for Passport and Node.js. (by jaredhanson)

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node-openid-client

OpenID Certified™ Relying Party (OpenID Connect/OAuth 2.0 Client) implementation for Node.js. (by panva)

Oidc Openid openid-client openid-connect Passport Connect Client

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passport-local		node-openid-client
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1	Mentions	3
2,705	Stars	1,727
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	7.7
3 months ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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passport-local

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

passport-local: Username and password authentication strategy for Passport and Node.js.
1 project | /r/coolgithubprojects | 6 Oct 2022

node-openid-client

Posts with mentions or reviews of node-openid-client. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-27.

Are people using Auth.js already?
3 projects | /r/sveltejs | 27 Jan 2023

Nearly all of the platforms implement OpenID, so I ended up rolling my own integration using openid-client to do the third party auth, and then on success, just set your own cookie.
Any resources of OAuth2 without using any packages/passport.js?
2 projects | /r/node | 1 Jun 2022

There is quite a bit of hidden complexity to doing different flows. One approach to learning these is to use a lower level library (and perhaps review its code) such as the excellent openid-client.
[AskJS] Which JS OpenID Connect library to use in 2021?
3 projects | /r/javascript | 13 Aug 2021

I've successfully used this one in the past, specifically the Passport strategy. Based on a cursory search it seems like the best current option.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing passport-local and node-openid-client you can also consider the following projects:

Passport - Simple, unobtrusive authentication for Node.js.

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

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

okta-react - Okta OIDC SDK for React

okta-auth-js - The official js wrapper around Okta's auth API

angular-auth-oidc-client - npm package for OpenID Connect, OAuth Code Flow with PKCE, Refresh tokens, Implicit Flow

Ory Hydra - OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect and OAuth Provider written in Go - cloud native, security-first, open source API security for your infrastructure. SDKs for any language. Works with Hardware Security Modules. Compatible with MITREid.

tidal-connect-docker - This is the dockerized version of Tidal Connect Raspberry binairies. Can be seemlessly used in HifiberryOS or any other RPi based operating system running Docker.

passport-facebook - Facebook authentication strategy for Passport and Node.js.

external-auth-server - easy auth for reverse proxies

sveltekit-oauth-example

express-openid-connect - An Express.js middleware to protect OpenID Connect web applications.