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Walk-up Usable Codebases

Walk-up Usable Codebases

The term “Walk-up usable” (sometimes called walk-up-and-use) describes a system that is so intuitive, a new user can immediately be effective. When I think about developer experiences, I think about the walk-up usability of the codebase.

PropelAuth Adds Support for Django REST Framework

PropelAuth Adds Support for Django REST Framework

With PropelAuth's Django REST framework support, you can add a few additional lines of code and automatically make sure your APIs can only be reached by valid users within an organization and that have specific roles.

The Basics of User Authentication

The Basics of User Authentication

Authentication is a broad topic that can be both very simple and very complicated. In this series we’ll describe what it is and different approaches to implement it, starting from older less-secure methods and ending with modern more-secure methods.

Production-ready Backend with dbmate, PugSQL, PropelAuth, and FastAPI

Production-ready Backend with dbmate, PugSQL, PropelAuth, and FastAPI

In this post, we’ll build a fully production-ready backend complete with DB migrations, B2B authentication, to show off all the cool features that FastAPI provides. We'll also use PugSQL as a novel approach to interacting with the database.

Understanding Auth Terminology with Examples

Understanding Auth Terminology with Examples

Whether you are new to the auth space or not, there’s a lot of overlapping terminology that can be hard to decipher. In this post, we’ll look at some common but confusing terminology and describe what each means with examples.

Build or Buy: User Authentication

Build or Buy: User Authentication

If you have users, then a reliable auth system is going to be a requirement for your company—whether it’s small or large. And like any project, setting up auth can either be done in house or handled by an external service. While you may think, “It’s better

Autogenerating Clients with FastAPI and Github Actions

Autogenerating Clients with FastAPI and Github Actions

In this post, we'll learn how to use FastAPI and Github Actions to make sure your client and server never get out of sync.

RBAC Application Examples in Real World B2B Products

RBAC Application Examples in Real World B2B Products

Role based access control (RBAC) is a method of deciding who gets access to what based on their role. In this post, we’ll look at some real world applications using RBAC to see the value of designating hierarchal roles.

Auth Needs From MVP to IPO: The Different Stages of User Authentication

Auth Needs From MVP to IPO: The Different Stages of User Authentication

The authentication requirements of a product change over time. When you first start out, you may only want to let a select set of beta customers into your product. Later on, you may need to worry about onboarding all the employees at a large customer onto your product at once.

Setting up a Responsive Multi-Tenant Template with Grommet, PropelAuth, and Next.js

Setting up a Responsive Multi-Tenant Template with Grommet, PropelAuth, and Next.js

Grommet is a React-based framework that provides tools for you to quickly build responsive and accessible applications. It has some of the most intuitive components for setting up the structure of your product (e.g. headers, footers, responsive sidebars, etc).

Add Personalized Content to your Docs with MarkDoc, Next.js, and PropelAuth

Add Personalized Content to your Docs with MarkDoc, Next.js, and PropelAuth

Stripe open sourced Markdoc which is a Markdown-based authoring framework. The ability to quickly and easily add arbitrary React components to a markdown file is really cool! It allows you to be really creative and easily add dynamic content to your markdown files.

Creating Advanced Reusable Forms in Next.js

Creating Advanced Reusable Forms in Next.js

In this guide, we’ll create a form that we can use across our product. We’ll start with something simple and slowly add in more complexity like preventing the user from navigating away with unsaved changes

PropelAuth vs Auth0

PropelAuth vs Auth0

It’s hard to have a company with "Auth" in your name and not get asked: "How are you different than Auth0?" In this post, we wanted to document some of the reasons you should choose PropelAuth over Auth0.

PropelAuth Adds Support for Rails

PropelAuth Adds Support for Rails

Rails is a web framework that provides a ton of features of the box. With PropelAuth, you can quickly protect your API routes. Users without valid access tokens are rejected and all you have to do is manage a user_id. The library also supports B2B auth.

PropelAuth Works Before You Write Any Code

PropelAuth Works Before You Write Any Code

PropelAuth is a user authentication product that works before you write any code. But, what exactly does that mean? That means that from the moment you sign up for PropelAuth, you will have a working, testable set of UIs for common actions like signup, login, account, and team management.

Why Traditional Auth Tools Won't Cut It For B2B Businesses

Why Traditional Auth Tools Won't Cut It For B2B Businesses

Your business deserves more. We've spoken to hundreds of startup founders about their auth experiences, and we discovered a few things...

Creating a B2B Next.js Application

Creating a B2B Next.js Application

In this guide, we’ll build an example B2B application in Next.js where users can sign up, invite their coworkers to the product, and manage permissions for their teams (RBAC).

Step-by-step Guide to Add SSO with Microsoft

Step-by-step Guide to Add SSO with Microsoft

Logging in with an SSO provider like Microsoft, Google, Github, etc. provides one of the lowest friction ways of signing up new users, but requires your users to have an account with one of those providers.

Sign In and Account Merges with Slack

Sign In and Account Merges with Slack

PropelAuth manages the entire OAuth flow so all you have to do is enter some basic information and your users can sign in with Slack. These accounts are not special. If you have already integrated, you don't need to change your code at all to work with Slack.

Onboarding Users from a Waitlist

Onboarding Users from a Waitlist

With PropelAuth you can now disable public signups. This will do a few obvious things, like removing the user facing signup page and any links to it.

Notifications on User Signup

Notifications on User Signup

Enter a Slack webhook URL and we'll notify you every time a new user signs up. You can also set different webhooks for your test and production environments.

Syncing Your User and Org Tables with Webhooks

Syncing Your User and Org Tables with Webhooks

Today, we're excited to show off our Webhook support. Webhooks allow you to reliably receive an HTTP request when a specific action occurs, like a user signing up, joining an organization, or having their role change.

RBAC Authorization with FastAPI and PropelAuth

RBAC Authorization with FastAPI and PropelAuth

Role based access control (RBAC) is a method of deciding who gets access to what based on their role. In this post, we'll look at how to setup RBAC quickly with FastAPI and PropelAuth.

Fast Serverless Authentication with Next.js and PropelAuth

Fast Serverless Authentication with Next.js and PropelAuth

Next.js is a React framework that provides a lot of useful features out of the box. One of these powerful features is API routes, which allows you to make an API/backend entirely within your Next.js application. In this post, we'll create an authenticated API route that's verified at the edge.

Supporting FastAPI Authentication

Supporting FastAPI Authentication

At PropelAuth, we're excited to show off our first-class support for FastAPI. The user is injected directly into your function. Users without valid access tokens are rejected and all you have to do is manage a user_id.