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Discussion on: What's the easiest way to put authentication into a website

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Ben Halpern

Auth0 comes to mind—Auth as a service. I haven't used it, but it definitely has the potential to take a lot off your plate and will likely integrate well with the fancy JS framework of your dreams.

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Sylvain Marty

I implemented it a few months ago and it was kind of easy to setup and a very powerful service.
But I think that it's a good thing to know how to setup at least basic HTTP and JWT Authentication itself before using a Saas for authentication. For example, JWT Auth implementation isn't simple and a bad implementation can lead to security issues on both server and client side. So, implementing the solution by himself is a good way to learn how it works and to learn the best pratices. ;)

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Roger Stach

What does dev.to use for it's authentication?

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Bence Hornyak

Twitter and/or Github oauth2 based on how you can create your dev.to account.. :)