At some point, you are probably going to put information in your databases that you want to keep private. You'll need to implement an authentication scheme to identify your users, and authorization to control access to resources.
Cookie-based and token-based authentication are the two most-common methods of putting server-side authentication into practice. Cookie-based authentication relies on server-side cookies to remember the user. Token-based authentication requires an encrypted auth token with each request. While cookie-based authentication is the most common, token-based authentication offers several advantages for modern web apps. The Auth0 blog has a great article on the advantages that token authentication offers.
The feathers-authentication plugin makes it easy to add token-based auth to your app. Choose a tutorial below to get started.
- Setting Up Local Auth (username and password)
Feathers is based on Express. It's likely that an auth plugin used for Express can also work for Feathers.
If you have an authentication method that you would like listed here, please submit a pull request.