pow vs samly

pow

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

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samly

Elixir Plug library to enable SAML 2.0 SP SSO in Phoenix/Plug applications. (by handnot2)

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pow		samly
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3	Mentions	2
3,444	Stars	123
-	Growth	-
10.0	Activity	0.0
almost 4 years ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months 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

samly

Posts with mentions or reviews of samly. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-28.

Authenticating on SAML site
2 projects | /r/elixir | 28 Apr 2022

If they let you register new service providers, then sure you could use samly to stand up a service provider. Hopefully they'd have some documentation for doing so.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pow and samly 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.

guardian - Elixir Authentication

htpasswd - Apache httpasswd file reader/writer in Elixir

ueberauth_github - GitHub OAuth2 Strategy for Überauth

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

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

Paddle - A library simplifying LDAP usage in Elixir projects

aws-elixir - AWS clients for Elixir

oauth2ex - An OAuth 2.0 client library for elixir.

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

ueberauth_cas - Central Authentication Service strategy for Überauth