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Clean Code with Rust & Axum

Clean Code with Rust & Axum

One of my favorite parts of the book Clean Code was seeing a code snippet that starts off gross and unmanageable and watching it iteratively improve. In this post, we’re going to do the same thing but specifically use a close-to real-world example with Rust and Axum. For each

Rust Authentication with PropelAuth

Rust Authentication with PropelAuth

We are incredibly excited to release the propelauth crate, which you can use to add authentication and authorization to your Rust backend. We have support built out for Actix and Axum, as well as a generic library that can be used in any other framework.

React Hooks for Multi-Tenancy and Authorization w/ PropelAuth

React Hooks for Multi-Tenancy and Authorization w/ PropelAuth

Say you built a SaaS application for restaurants to track information about their orders. There are multiple people at the restaurants who need access to this information. There’s an owner, there are managers, and there are frontline employees who need access too. Each of these users will have different

Adding Customizable Roles and Permissions to PropelAuth

Adding Customizable Roles and Permissions to PropelAuth

We’re happy to share the latest update to PropelAuth—adding more customizability to role based access control (RBAC), so you can have full control over what your users can see and do within your product.

How We Incrementally Migrated to Next.js and Vercel

How We Incrementally Migrated to Next.js and Vercel

Recently, we switched our marketing site over to Next.js and Vercel. Our frontend developers are able to create designs in a format they are already comfortable with (CSS and React). Our marketing team is happy that they can make changes without needing an engineer in the loop.

Serverless Multi-Tenant Python Apps Made Easy with Chalice and PropelAuth

Serverless Multi-Tenant Python Apps Made Easy with Chalice and PropelAuth

Serverless functions are very powerful but historically have a poor developer experience. Chalice allows us to quickly deploy API routes with very little code. When combined with PropelAuth—we can have a full enterprise-ready multi-tenant application quickly and easily.

Custom Organization Naming

Custom Organization Naming

When users sign up for your product, do they sign up as individuals or in groups? If you are building a B2B product, they likely sign up in groups alongside their coworkers. But what do you call these groups?

Generating Chess Puzzles with Genetic Algorithms

Generating Chess Puzzles with Genetic Algorithms

We took a library used for function minimization, attached Stockfish to it, and used it to generate surprisingly complex mate in 3 chess puzzles without too much code. Libraries like this excite me because it feels like the limit is your imagination and your ability to transform ideas into code.

Instant Multi-Tenant GraphQL APIs with PostGraphile, RLS, and PropelAuth

Instant Multi-Tenant GraphQL APIs with PostGraphile, RLS, and PropelAuth

GraphQL is a query language for APIs that can help your engineering team move faster. Just one set of developers can build and maintain the overall schema, and everyone else gets a friendly interface for accessing/mutating the data. The queries are written like this: { hero { name height } } And it

This Menu Takes 20 Seconds to Scroll Through

This Menu Takes 20 Seconds to Scroll Through

A common cycle that products go through is: Someone builds an easy to use, slightly opinionated product. It gains adoption because it perfectly solves a problem for a set of users.

Why B2B Companies Waste More Time on Authentication

Why B2B Companies Waste More Time on Authentication

B2B companies have a lot of additional user authentication needs than B2C. You start with an organization ID and an invitation flow, and slowly you are adding roles and self-service UIs, and org-aware middleware.

Azure AD SAML Connections in One Click

Azure AD SAML Connections in One Click

SAML enables our customers to provide Enterprise SSO within their products in a single click. Earlier this week we launched with support for many of the other top identity providers, like Okta, JumpCloud, and OneLogin and are happy to add Azure AD to the list.

PropelAuth Launches Self-service SAML

PropelAuth Launches Self-service SAML

We’re excited to say that our SAML (also called Enterprise SSO) implementation is out of beta and now available to all our customers! This feature allows your customers to log in to your product using their existing identity provider, like Okta, Google, OneLogin, and more.

JWT Authentication Explained with Code Examples

JWT Authentication Explained with Code Examples

When I’m trying to understand a concept, I like to play around with relevant libraries. We’ll try this out with JWTs using the popular javascript library jsonwebtoken.

The Importance of Product Led Growth for Dev Tools

The Importance of Product Led Growth for Dev Tools

Product led growth (PLG) is a fairly simple concept. It’s the idea that your product should be the driving force of your company’s growth. Your product should be good enough that it can stand on its own merits. Your customers will recommend it to others and advocate for it.

Multi-Tenant Next.js App with Prisma and PropelAuth

Multi-Tenant Next.js App with Prisma and PropelAuth

In this post, we’ll show how to build a multi-tenant application using Next.js, Prisma, and PropelAuth. We’ll build a simple B2B application where each user can make "posts" within a tenant.

Updates to Our Hosted Auth Pages

Updates to Our Hosted Auth Pages

We’re excited to share new user interface (UI) and feature updates to our hosted auth pages! These are the UIs that we host on your behalf for your users.

Seamless Migration to PropelAuth

Seamless Migration to PropelAuth

We’re excited to announce the release of our migration API to allow companies with existing auth systems to switch over without any user interruption

Tools to Use When Setting up a JavaScript Repo

Tools to Use When Setting up a JavaScript Repo

Setting up a JavaScript repo for the first time can be tricky, but it doesn't have to be! This blog will walk you through setting up your first repository, from development environment setup to package bundlers to protecting your main branch.

Avoiding CORS Issues in React/Next.js

Avoiding CORS Issues in React/Next.js

The simplest way to fix any CORS issues in React and Next.js is actually not to change anything in React or Next.js but instead to fix your server

PropelAuth raises $2.59M to address the specific authentication requirements of B2B companies

Following their completion of the W22 cohort at Y Combinator, PropelAuth, a remote-based firm that offers end-to-end authentication for B2B companies, has raised a $2.59M seed investment. Tiger Global, 8-Bit Capital, Soma Capital, and Y Combinator participated in the round along with 16 other firms and angel investors. Fund

Using PugSQL and FastAPI

Using PugSQL and FastAPI

Most of the tutorials/guides that I read about FastAPI and Python web frameworks in general use SQLAlchemy directly. While SQLAlchemy is great, I personally prefer writing raw SQL over using an ORM. PugSQL is a really interesting alternative that allows you to write your own SQL files...

Customer Specific URLs in SaaS Applications

Customer Specific URLs in SaaS Applications

There are many ways to structure your URLs for your customers. You can explicitly reference the customer in the URL or you can manage that separately. You can put the customers name in the path, a subdomain, or a query parameter, each of which have different pros and cons.

PropelAuth Announces Improvements to Organization Concepts

PropelAuth Announces Improvements to Organization Concepts

PropelAuth today announced the launch of improved Organization concepts along with updated front-end and back-end libraries. PropelAuth customers will now be able to create and manage Organizations on behalf of their users.

Dynamic Organization Routing with React

Dynamic Organization Routing with React

In this post, we'll look at how to create a dynamic route for the organization a user is a member of in React using react-router and PropelAuth