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Passport.js is a library to do authentication in your NodeJS app. Why do you compare it with a hosted service? If someone asks for a bike recommendation, you wouldn't recommend a car because it has an engine, would you?
Dec 19, 2021 · app.use(passport.initialize()) app.use(passport.session()) Passport.initialize creates the passport object on the request and defines where the shorthand user is located on the req object (defaults to req.user). Passport.session sets up calls the serialize && deserialize methods (we’ll talk about those later) and interacts with express-session.
Jun 26, 2023 · As per their FAQs “Auth.js is designed for use with Next.js and Serverless.” Considering your requirement of building the API using express, skipping the NextJS API implementation, then it would seem that passport is a better fit.
Dec 24, 2021 · I’d intuit that most 3rd party authentication api’s (including Passport) are probably already using jsonwebtoken. But, there’s not much to it. If your desired library doesn’t have a built in way to create hashed auth tokens, then absolutely!
Sep 13, 2018 · The passport-jwt strategy within it has an extract from from auth header method, which does exactly that get that ^ token The strategy further checks whether the token is valid (not expired or fake maybe) and then takes a step further where it checks whether the email encodedd in the jwt exists in the DB, if it does return the user details.
May 31, 2019 · So you use passport + whatever specific modules you might need to be the complete solution. Same idea as having an abstract data class + different modules for specific data sources. The consuming service doesn't need to care about what type of auth system you use,.
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Jul 10, 2019 · Coming from Rails, Passport.js seems so gross, chock full of boilerplate and buggy. Also the repo seems under maintained. Are there other alternatives to Passport.js? Or has Auth0 pretty much swept up the market where Passport.js has dropped the ball?
May 3, 2019 · I was building a new project and working on the authentication part when I noticed that passportjs has been unmaintained for almost 2 years. For now I'm only implementing local authentication with JWT but I want the ability to add google and facebook authentication soon. Is passport my only option for doing so? Thanks! edit: I'm using express.
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