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  5. Firebase Authentication vs JSON Web Token vs Keycloak

Firebase Authentication vs JSON Web Token vs Keycloak

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Overview

Keycloak
Keycloak
Stacks781
Followers1.3K
Votes102
JSON Web Token
JSON Web Token
Stacks1.8K
Followers367
Votes0
GitHub Stars3.7K
Forks374
Firebase Authentication
Firebase Authentication
Stacks533
Followers610
Votes55

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Detailed Comparison

Keycloak
Keycloak
JSON Web Token
JSON Web Token
Firebase Authentication
Firebase Authentication

It is an Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services. It adds authentication to applications and secure services with minimum fuss. No need to deal with storing users or authenticating users. It's all available out of the box.

JSON Web Token is an open standard that defines a compact and self-contained way for securely transmitting information between parties as a JSON object. This information can be verified and trusted because it is digitally signed.

It provides backend services, easy-to-use SDKs, and ready-made UI libraries to authenticate users to your app. It supports authentication using passwords, phone numbers, popular federated identity providers like Google,

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Statistics
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Stars
3.7K
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Forks
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GitHub Forks
374
GitHub Forks
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Stacks
781
Stacks
1.8K
Stacks
533
Followers
1.3K
Followers
367
Followers
610
Votes
102
Votes
0
Votes
55
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 33
    It's a open source solution
  • 24
    Supports multiple identity provider
  • 17
    OpenID and SAML support
  • 12
    Easy customisation
  • 10
    JSON web token
Cons
  • 7
    Okta
  • 6
    Poor client side documentation
  • 5
    Lack of Code examples for client side
No community feedback yet
Pros
  • 12
    Completely Free
  • 8
    Email/Password
  • 8
    Native App + Web integrations
  • 7
    Passwordless
  • 6
    Works seemlessly with other Firebase Services
Cons
  • 6
    Heavy webpack

What are some alternatives to Keycloak, JSON Web Token, Firebase Authentication?

Auth0

Auth0

A set of unified APIs and tools that instantly enables Single Sign On and user management to all your applications.

Stormpath

Stormpath

Stormpath is an authentication and user management service that helps development teams quickly and securely build web and mobile applications and services.

Devise

Devise

Devise is a flexible authentication solution for Rails based on Warden

Amazon Cognito

Amazon Cognito

You can create unique identities for your users through a number of public login providers (Amazon, Facebook, and Google) and also support unauthenticated guests. You can save app data locally on users’ devices allowing your applications to work even when the devices are offline.

WorkOS

WorkOS

Start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code.

OAuth.io

OAuth.io

OAuth is a protocol that aimed to provide a single secure recipe to manage authorizations. It is now used by almost every web application. However, 30+ different implementations coexist. OAuth.io fixes this massive problem by acting as a universal adapter, thanks to a robust API. With OAuth.io integrating OAuth takes minutes instead of hours or days.

OmniAuth

OmniAuth

OmniAuth is a Ruby authentication framework aimed to abstract away the difficulties of working with various types of authentication providers. It is meant to be hooked up to just about any system, from social networks to enterprise systems to simple username and password authentication.

ORY Hydra

ORY Hydra

It is a self-managed server that secures access to your applications and APIs with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect. It is OpenID Connect Certified and optimized for latency, high throughput, and low resource consumption.

Kinde

Kinde

Simple, powerful authentication that you can integrate in minutes. Free your users from passwords with secure and frictionless one click sign up and sign in. Built from the ground up using the best in class security protocols available today.

Satellizer

Satellizer

Satellizer is a simple to use, end-to-end, token-based authentication module for AngularJS with built-in support for Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter authentication providers, plus Email and Password sign-in method. You are not limited to the sign-in options above, in fact you can add any OAuth 1.0 or OAuth 2.0 provider by passing provider-specific information during the configuration step.

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