Authentication has been a topic of fascination for me over the last several months. I have been researching all of the available options that I can find. If you follow me on YouTube, then you might have seen my video about authentication methods. Since creating that video, I stumbled upon SuperTokens, and I have to say... I am impressed.
That being said, SuperTokens is for a specific use case—web apps created with create-react-app. Technically, it works with other libraries as well, but I think other options are better for projects built with Gatsby, other JavaScript frameworks, or native applications—At least for now (I am actually a contributor for SuperTokens, and in the future I plan on working on bringing ease-of-use to Gatsby and maybe Expo for native applications).
SuperTokens is good for several reasons:
- It is simple to set up (with
create-react-app). - It is open source.
- You can easily self-host it (I'm working on the CapRover One-Click App).
- It integrates with your Node.js API.
Some of the (current) drawbacks of SuperTokens include:
- There are not supported SDKs for other frameworks.
- There are not supported SDKs for other backends.
Keeping in mind these limitations, this is the perfect use case for SuperTokens:
SaaS web application built with CRA on a subdomain
Let me explain.
You probably do not want to use create-react-app for a landing page because you want to optimize SEO. So instead, you choose Next.js or Gatsby. But those are annoying to build apps in, so you use create-react-app for the app itself. Host the app on https://app.yourdomain.com and the landing page on https://yourdomain.com. Then boom. Easy authentication with better SEO. And your authentication is not bound by vendor lockin because you can selfhost it.
This is my current strategy for TickerTab.
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