react-native-auth0 VS next-auth

Welcome, fellow developers! Today I want to present you a step-by-step technique on how to test Auth0’s custom actions and databases in Javascript. For those of you who don’t know Auth0, it’s an identity management platform that you can connect to your existing or new applications, and configure it to easily provide authentication and authorization mechanisms. It’s one of the easiest solutions for IAM nowadays.

For example, you can rely on the powerful OAuth by Okta to handle your Auth services, Flutterwave payment gateway to accept payment, and Google Firebase Messaging to manage notifications.

For the third, examples here might be analytics plugins in specialized databases like Clickhouse, data-transformations in places like your ETL pipeline using Airflow or Fivetran, or special integrations in your authentication workflow with Auth0 hooks and rules.

Authentication providers like Auth0 and Okta have become commonplace in software development. These providers help take this work off of your plate, and this can be made even easier by using a reverse proxy that provides authentication capabilities, like oauth2-proxy.

Ideally, I would recommend not handling and storing passwords yourself. It is preferable to use an identity provider (IdP), such as Azure AD B2C, Auth0, or FusionAuth. These systems are designed to manage your users' identity (including their passwords) so you don't have to. You could also use Single Sign-On with cloud providers.

Authentication, authorization, access control, and any other synonymous name you can think to call it, is not always a walk in the park. Through the evolution of the World Wide Web (WWW) and web applications, there have been various solutions to help make authentication a breeze. There have been, third-party services like Auth0 that you can easily integrate with your apps without having to worry much about authentication and doing it right, or worry about security because these third-party services cover all of that. There have also been standards, and specifications like OAuth and OpenID Connect (OIDC) which have evolved over the years. Some libraries and SDKs enable developers to easily integrate with these services, standards and specifications without worrying much about low-level implementation details. The only need-to-know is a subset of the SDK’s APIs needed to meet the application requirements. NextAuth.js is one of these libraries!

Auth0 is a cloud service that provides a turn-key solution for authentication, authorization and user management. It is a feature-rich service that is highly customizable and can be used in a variety of ways. Auth0 is a great choice for a wide range of applications, from simple web apps to enterprise applications. It provides a great way to add authentication and authorization to your application without having to build it yourself, and has various integrations with services such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, and more. This along with its passwordless authentication and multi-factor authentication makes it a great choice for a wide range of applications.

Auth0 (provider) Auth0 has been around for some time and is probably the most popular authN provider out there. While authN is their main offering (they give you SDKs for authentication + they store user profiles and let you manage them through their SaaS), they also allow you to define authZ to some degree, via RBAC and policies.

#6 Auth0

Auth0 is a popular user management tool with a great developer experience library for React. It simplifies login configuration, user management, and more.

NextAuth.js is not perfect. One of the shortcomings is that it currently does not implement federated logout. This means that even if a user signs out of the Next.js app, he does NOT get signed out of the Cognito user pool client. As a consequence, the user is not really being logged out (i.e he is able to login again without providing the credentials). You can read more about this problem in this Github thread.

NextAuth for adding auth

Let's learn a bit about Descope and how to use it with Auth.js (next-auth) to protect our Next.js app with role-based access control (RBAC).

https://github.com/nextauthjs/next-auth/issues/5647#issuecom...

Next Auth CognitoProvider Internal Library: https://github.com/nextauthjs/next-auth/blob/v4/packages/next-auth/src/providers/cognito.ts

I mentioned this in an age-old discussion on NextAuth GitHub repo.

For Auth: https://authjs.dev/ - works like a charm with Svelte https://authjs.dev/reference/sveltekit

NextAuth.js

I'm surprised nobody mentioned https://authjs.dev/