scs
HTTP Session Management for Go (by alexedwards)
paseto
Platform-Agnostic Security Tokens implementation in GO (Golang) (by o1egl)
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scs
Posts with mentions or reviews of scs.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-04.
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Authentication system using Golang and Sveltekit - Login and Logout
Although there are pretty good session managers in the Go ecosystem such as alexedwards/scs, golangcollege/session and gorilla/sessions, we won't use any but using this great guide, we'll write our own. This is to keep our project's dependence on external packages at the barest minimum.
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Sessions in Golang
github.com/alexedwards/scs is quite pleasant to work with.
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What are the best alternatives to gorilla session?
This one works ok: https://github.com/alexedwards/scs
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Standard library, Fiber, Iris, Gin, ... where does one even begin with writing production web apps in Go?
I'm a big fan of Alex Edwards' book "Let's Go", and he uses his own Sessions library: https://github.com/alexedwards/scs which you can find in the Authentication section of Awesome Go. So that's a great source as well.
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How do you do Authentication?
Server side sessions using alexedwards/scs.
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REST API + limit number of seats
Unfortunately I haven't written a cookie/session based auth flow in Golang before so can't recommend any libraries. A quick google led me to https://github.com/alexedwards/scs which may or may not be helpful.
paseto
Posts with mentions or reviews of paseto.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-15.
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Am I doing authorization correctly? I'm doing http-only cookie-based auth and to get the current user I call an API route that reads the cookie and returns the info
Check out paseto tokens
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How to create and verify JWT & PASETO token in Golang
OK, let’s open the browser and search for paseto golang. Open its Github page and copy the URL: https://github.com/o1egl/paseto. Then run go get with this URL to download the package:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing scs and paseto you can also consider the following projects:
go-guardian - Go-Guardian is a golang library that provides a simple, clean, and idiomatic way to create powerful modern API and web authentication.
jwt - Community maintained clone of https://github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go
otpgen - Library to generate TOTP/HOTP codes
branca - :key: Secure alternative to JWT. Authenticated Encrypted API Tokens for Go.
cookiestxt - cookiestxt implement parser of cookies txt format
securecookie - Fast, secure and efficient secure cookie encoder/decoder
sjwt - Simple JWT Golang
go-email-normalizer - Golang library for providing a canonical representation of email address.
sessiongate-go - A driver for the SessionGate Redis module - easy session management using the Go language.