the-usher-server VS SuperTokens Community

In my experience, businesses are especially concerned with authorization — enabling product sales to customers.

They would rather not deal with identity and authentication — usernames and passwords — at all. These are already quite nicely handled to various degrees by Cogntio, Auth0, Azure Active Directory, and others.

To address minimalist authorization needs, the portfolio of companies I worked with collaborated to create The Usher[1]. The Usher is an open source authorization server in NodeJS. Worth a peek if you, too, want to focus on authorization separate from authentication.

Disclosure: I am a contributor to The Usher.

[1] https://github.com/DMGT-TECH/the-usher-server

This blog post introduces The Usher, how it works, and some of the ways we use it in our companies across the DMGT portfolio. However if you'd like to dive right in, clone The Usher Server repo and issue a docker-compose up!

I get what you are trying to do, but it feels a bit insecure. Why not use an OSS passwordless project like https://github.com/supertokens/supertokens-core/ or https://github.com/teamhanko/hanko

Checkout https://supertokens.com/ - open source alternative to Auth0. It has a lot of free features and if you self host it, it's free at any scale. For our managed service, it's still far cheaper compared to Auth0.

SuperTokens

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The Developer-First Security Week event is on August 7-11. The theme is shifting left with a security mindset with top expert speakers from Snyk, BoxyHQ, Microsoft, Google, Gitlab, Bearer, SuperTokens, Cerbos, and more...Come learn with us as the speakers dive into complex topics on Authorization, Authentication, Data Privacy.

Supertokens dont reinvent, just reuse

GitHub: https://github.com/supertokens/supertokens-core Website: https://supertokens.com/

Signing up - You're not actually signing up to anything. Supertokens (open source auth provider) is running locally on your machine. It's just a means for you to be able to have an account (and soon invite others to your project to collaborate together). The data doesn't leave your computer.