Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'

Re:Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'S... by leesalminen on Thursday December 17, 2020 @04:53PM (#25461002)

I’m building a MVP to show off and validate some ideas. I’m using Firebase and set up auth with my react app in about 10 minutes. I’d never spend a week on auth for a MVP.

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Re:Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'S... by anonytrary on Thursday December 17, 2020 @08:32PM (#25462775)

I was talking about rolling you own email/password auth from scratch. I keep hearing about Firebase and how easy it is. Is that like AWS Cognito? Does it have custom branding or is it a drop-in form? Can it be hooked to your own SQL database?

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Re:Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'S... by rubicon33 on Friday December 18, 2020 @06:07PM (#25473206)

It's far easier than AWS Cognito. Yes, I've used both.

Firebase auth is as easy as it gets for auth. Want Username/Pass? Just enable it. Want Google, Twitter, Firebase, Apple, Github, etc.? Just enable it, and write the handlers.

Want to hook into your own SQL database? Easy. Set up a firebase listener, that handles the auth event, and write whatever you want (username, auth details) to SQL.

This is a 100% solved problem and Firebase does a superb job it it.

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Re:Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'S... by anonytrary on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:07PM (#25474329)

Awesome, this is great to know. I'll have to consider it for my next side project. Unfortunately I just finished rolling my own, so... :)

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