pow vs htpasswd

pow

Zero-configuration Rack server for Mac OS X (by basecamp)

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htpasswd

Apache httpasswd file reader/writer in Elixir (by bunnylushington)

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pow		htpasswd
	Project
3	Mentions	-
3,444	Stars	4
-	Growth	-
10.0	Activity	0.0
almost 4 years ago	Latest Commit	about 4 years ago
CoffeeScript	Language	Elixir
MIT License	License	MIT License

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pow

Posts with mentions or reviews of pow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-26.

Richard Schneeman's How to Open Source book is out! 🤩
4 projects | /r/ruby | 26 Sep 2022

Is this the POW you're talking about? https://github.com/basecamp/pow
Doctree
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Apr 2022
Apple Monterey reserves port 5000, a common web development port
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Nov 2021

I don't think IANA explicitly reserved .dev. It was made popular as a local dev domain by Basecamp's Pow[1]. IANA only defines .test, .example, .invalid, .local, and .localhost as reserved (with .onion being the latest addition in 2015[2])
Though in this list, only .test and .example are marked as non-special and must be resolved normally by RFC 6761, and .local is reserved for mDNS by RFC 6762. In this list, .test would have been the most appropriate for Pow to use.
CydeWeys (Tech Lead of Google Registry) has commented on HN in the past that they did not anticipated people weren't following the best practices[3], which makes me think IANA should have given .dev the same treatment as .onion: by explicitly reserving them (but this is another topic to discuss).
[1]: https://github.com/basecamp/pow
[2]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7686.html
[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=CydeWeys

htpasswd

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing pow and htpasswd you can also consider the following projects:

doctree - First-class library documentation for every language (based on tree-sitter), with symbol search & more. Lightweight single binary, run locally or self-host. Surfaces usage examples via Sourcegraph.

Pow - Robust, modular, and extendable user authentication system

ueberauth - An Elixir Authentication System for Plug-based Web Applications

Paddle - A library simplifying LDAP usage in Elixir projects

guardian - Elixir Authentication

coherence - Coherence is a full featured, configurable authentication system for Phoenix

phx_gen_auth - An authentication system generator for Phoenix 1.5 applications.

sigaws - An Elixir library to sign and verify HTTP requests using AWS Signature V4

oban - 💎 Robust job processing in Elixir, backed by modern PostgreSQL and SQLite3

oauth2ex - An OAuth 2.0 client library for elixir.