Elevate Your Next.js Security: Middleware Authorization with Userfront

Elevate Your Next.js Security: Middleware Authorization with Userfront

In this guide, I will show you how to secure your Next.js application with Userfront by implementing middleware-level authorization and leaving component authorization practices.
October 11, 2024
By 
Syed Muhammad Yaseen
Community Posts
Launch a Vercel Project with Secure Auth in Just a Few Clicks

Launch a Vercel Project with Secure Auth in Just a Few Clicks

This process uses Vercel to clone Userfront’s Next.js Sample App repository. When you're done, you will have a fresh Next.js project with ready to use, customizable authentication forms wired up for signup, login, and password reset.
October 1, 2024
By 
Darin Evangelista
How-To
PLG vs. Enterprise Auth: Key Differences

PLG vs. Enterprise Auth: Key Differences

As SaaS companies scale from product-led growth (PLG) to targeting enterprise customers, the shift fundamentally alters how authentication and identity management are handled.
September 19, 2024
By 
Darin Evangelista
Business
Make Your FastAPI App Secure with Userfront

Make Your FastAPI App Secure with Userfront

This post was originally published on hashnode.dev.Python devs this is for you! In this article, I’ll show you how to simplify authentication in your fast API app using a neat little tool called Userfront. It helps you set up things like sign-ups, logins, and password resets without having to build everything yourself.
September 18, 2024
By 
Omu Inetimi
Community Posts
Consolidating Auth Systems for Enhanced Efficiency

Consolidating Auth Systems for Enhanced Efficiency

Managing multiple authentication systems can create significant resource strain, both for IT teams and end users.
September 5, 2024
By 
Darin Evangelista
Business
SOC 2 Compliance: What You Need to Know

SOC 2 Compliance: What You Need to Know

SOC 2 is a framework specifically designed to ensure that service providers handle data securely, addressing three key areas: security, availability, and confidentiality. This framework is crucial for organizations that store or process customer information, particularly those in the SaaS industry.
September 4, 2024
By 
Darin Evangelista
Glossary
The Dual Role of AI in Authentication & Cybersecurity

The Dual Role of AI in Authentication & Cybersecurity

Artificial intelligence (AI) plays a dual role in cybersecurity—both as a powerful tool for cyberattacks and as an enabler for advanced system defense. This section outlines these dual aspects, particularly in the context of authentication, and highlights how Userfront defends its customers against AI attacks.
August 30, 2024
By 
Darin Evangelista
Business
Machine-to-Machine Authentication: JWTs vs API Keys

Machine-to-Machine Authentication: JWTs vs API Keys

This guide explores how Userfront handles M2M authentication, providing an in-depth look at the options available, including JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) and API keys, and how they can be tailored to meet specific security requirements.
August 28, 2024
By 
Darin Evangelista
Glossary
🚀 Revolutionize Your App’s Authentication: Userfront for React, Vue.js, and More!

🚀 Revolutionize Your App’s Authentication: Userfront for React, Vue.js, and More!

Ready to add some super slick authentication to your React app in no time? 🚀 Let's dive into Userfront, where we'll make sure your users are securely signing up, logging in, and resetting passwords—all without breaking a sweat (or your code)!
August 19, 2024
By 
Lokesh Singh
Community Posts

Community spotlight: Oliver Hill & Userfront multi-tenancy

Oliver Hill likes building systems. Userfront is how he keeps auth simple.
May 9, 2024
By 
Userfront DevEx Team
Community Spotlight

Community spotlight: Mike Long & the choices startups make

CEO Mike Long has the experience and humor needed to start up Kosli. Working with Userfront engineers has been effortless and enjoyable.
May 9, 2024
By 
Userfront DevEx Team
Community Spotlight

Community spotlight: John Kim Murphy & SvelteKit

John Kim Murphy ported Userfront examples to help SvelteKit developers with a common question: how do I implement user authentication in SvelteKit?
May 9, 2024
By 
Userfront DevEx Team
Community Spotlight

Community spotlight: Roi Avidan & startup scaling with Userfront

Roi Avidan, technical leader at pay.com.au, replaced an MVP auth implementation with Userfront for seamless migration and enhanced user management.
May 9, 2024
By 
Userfront DevEx Team
Community Spotlight

Launch a Vercel Project with Secure Auth in Just a Few Clicks

This process uses Vercel to clone Userfront’s Next.js Sample App repository. When you're done, you will have a fresh Next.js project with ready to use, customizable authentication forms wired up for signup, login, and password reset.
May 9, 2024
By 
Darin Evangelista
How-To

Security-charging Your NextJS 14 App with Userfront Authentication

Whether you're new to authentication in NextJS or looking to migrate to a modern identity and authentication management system, this guide provides you with the knowledge to build a robust, secure authentication system using Userfront in your NextJS 14 application.
May 9, 2024
By 
Userfront DevEx Team
How-To

Plug-and-play auth with Userfront’s Toolkit

With Userfront’s Toolkit, adding things like a signup form or a login form to your own applications is a breeze. Ready to give it a whirl? Let’s go!
May 9, 2024
By 
Sara Safavi
How-To

SOC 2 Compliance: What You Need to Know

SOC 2 is a framework specifically designed to ensure that service providers handle data securely, addressing three key areas: security, availability, and confidentiality. This framework is crucial for organizations that store or process customer information, particularly those in the SaaS industry.
May 9, 2024
By 
Darin Evangelista
Glossary

Machine-to-Machine Authentication: JWTs vs API Keys

This guide explores how Userfront handles M2M authentication, providing an in-depth look at the options available, including JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) and API keys, and how they can be tailored to meet specific security requirements.
May 9, 2024
By 
Darin Evangelista
Glossary

Tenants All the Way Down: How Userfront Handles Access Management

This blog post explores various approaches to access management, focusing on the flexibility provided by tenants, child tenants, and multi-tenancy.
May 9, 2024
By 
Darin Evangelista
Glossary

Enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) for SaaS Companies

This post will delve into enterprise IAM, its importance, the types of organizations that need it, and key considerations for product teams when onboarding an IAM platform.
May 9, 2024
By 
Darin Evangelista
Glossary

Passwords: The Most Common Authentication Factor

Passwords are the most common authentication factor for our users. Authentication factors are ways in which users verify their identity to gain access to your application.
May 9, 2024
By 
Darin Evangelista
Glossary

Userfront Service Level Agreement (SLA)

Userfront maintains a service level agreement (SLA) to protect and provide peace of mind for our customers.
May 9, 2024
By 
Darin Evangelista
Glossary

What is Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)? And Why Is It Important?

Multi-factor authentication (or MFA) adds an extra layer of protection to your authentication flow by requiring two or more forms of authentication, ensuring that only authorized users can access your application.
May 9, 2024
By 
Darin Evangelista
Glossary

Single Sign-On (SSO): Simplifying The User Experience

Adding single sign-on to your website or application is an excellent way to streamline the signup and login process for your users. In this article, we’ll cover the basics of SSO and provide resources on how you can implement SSO today.
May 9, 2024
By 
Darin Evangelista
Glossary

OpenID Connect: An Overview

OpenID Connect is an identity layer that sits on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol. Learn more about the benefits of OpenID Connect and how to get started.
May 9, 2024
By 
Darin Evangelista
Glossary

Passwordless Authentication: An Introduction

This article explores the concept of passwordless authentication, its benefits for organizations, various methods, and how to implement passwordless authentication with Userfront.
May 9, 2024
By 
Darin Evangelista
Glossary

PLG vs. Enterprise Auth: Key Differences

As SaaS companies scale from product-led growth (PLG) to targeting enterprise customers, the shift fundamentally alters how authentication and identity management are handled.
May 9, 2024
By 
Darin Evangelista
Business

Consolidating Auth Systems for Enhanced Efficiency

Managing multiple authentication systems can create significant resource strain, both for IT teams and end users.
May 9, 2024
By 
Darin Evangelista
Business

The Dual Role of AI in Authentication & Cybersecurity

Artificial intelligence (AI) plays a dual role in cybersecurity—both as a powerful tool for cyberattacks and as an enabler for advanced system defense. This section outlines these dual aspects, particularly in the context of authentication, and highlights how Userfront defends its customers against AI attacks.
May 9, 2024
By 
Darin Evangelista
Business

Declan Brady just dropped a major enhancement to Userfront's JWT claims

Customizing JWT claims just went from a per-user basis to all users, thanks to Declan Brady
May 9, 2024
By 
Userfront DevEx Team
Business

Steve Cattaneo knows what it’s like to roll your own IAM

When Steve was a full stack engineer at an email security startup, the team took time away from developing their product to add IAM features. Steve shares the bumps along the way.
May 9, 2024
By 
Userfront DevEx Team
Business

Why I Love Building Userfront

This is why I love working on Userfront: we’re drawing the auth owl for thousands of software companies.
May 9, 2024
By 
Tyler Warnock
Business

The Importance of Identity and Access Management (IAM) Systems for Schools

Identity and Access Management (IAM) and authentication (auth) systems have emerged as essential tools for schools growing their online presence.
May 9, 2024
By 
Darin Evangelista
Business

New Auth Toolkit Makes Adding Multi-Factor Authentication a Breeze

With the new Toolkit upgrades, Userfront admins don’t need to be developers or know how to code to add seamless multi-factor authentication flows to signup and login forms.
May 9, 2024
By 
Darin Evangelista
Business