Ask HN: Passwordless vs. password-based login, which one to use?

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  • SuperTokens Community

    Open source alternative to Auth0 / Firebase Auth / AWS Cognito

  • A quick search on GitHub shows these results

    1. SuperTokens - https://github.com/supertokens/supertokens-core (seems to have most extensive feature sets and support for multiple passwordless methods - email, phone, otp, etc.)

    2. Paw.js - https://github.com/jrjr/paw.js (looks like an implementation of passkey, interesting)

  • paw.js

    Passwordless Authentication Wallet (PAW) is key-based authentication for the web. The library helps manage identities, their associated public/private keypairs, and signing operations in the browser.

  • A quick search on GitHub shows these results

    1. SuperTokens - https://github.com/supertokens/supertokens-core (seems to have most extensive feature sets and support for multiple passwordless methods - email, phone, otp, etc.)

    2. Paw.js - https://github.com/jrjr/paw.js (looks like an implementation of passkey, interesting)

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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