Test your React Libraries Locally with Yalc

Building and maintaining a React library can be a large task, even for small libraries. You start off thinking that you just have to figure out how to properly build and package your code. And then quickly you realize there’s a ton of configuration options and combinations of tools

Coding

Using Astro View Transitions for my Chess Library

Astro 3.0 was released recently, and one of the headlining features is their support for the View Transitions API. View Transitions are a surprisingly simple way to create animations across pages. In this post, we’re going to build the frontend for an application I use to store chess

PropelAuth has received SOC2 certification

We are excited to announce that PropelAuth has successfully completed a System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type II audit, performed by Sensiba LLP (Sensiba). If you’re not familiar with SOC2, here’s a little background: Developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the SOC2 information

Define Your Own User Schema

What information do you want to collect from your users? Maybe you want to find out how they first found out about you. Maybe you want them to agree to your terms of service. Or maybe you just want to know their name so all your marketing emails don’t

Authentication

FastAPI Authentication Guide

FastAPI is a modern web framework for building out APIs using Python. It’s fast, lightweight, and quick to build with, so it’s no wonder that many developers and companies use FastAPI for building out their products. Naturally, these applications and products might reach a point where the security

Authentication

Authentication with Next 13 App Router and Supabase

In this guide, we’ll build an example Next.js application with PropelAuth and Supabase. We cover the App Router version of Next.js 13, and demonstrate how to create an application that manages both users and organizations using PropelAuth. Create a PropelAuth Project The first step is to create

Authentication

Authentication with Next.js 13 and Supabase

In this guide, we’ll build an example Next.js server-side rendered application with PropelAuth and Supabase. We cover the Pages Router version of Next.js 13, and demonstrate how to create an application that manages both users and organizations using PropelAuth. Create a PropelAuth Project The first step is

Coding

The Joy of Pointless Projects

When I was a kid, I learned how to code with QBasic and VB6. One of the first projects I ever had someone else use was... if we are being polite, a password manager for my dad. If we are being realistic, it was a small script that opened up

Next.js

5 Common Pitfalls with Server Components in Next13 (with examples)

The App Router is a new feature in NextJS 13, and it was recently switched to being the recommended option when you create a new NextJS application. This effectively replaces the Pages Router, and NextJS has documentation on how you can incrementally switch over. The most notable difference in the

Authentication

Announcing: NextJS 13 Support

We’re excited to announce the release of our support for Next.js 13, and applications built using App Router! This library provides a simple way to integrate your Next.js application (either App Router or Pages Router) with PropelAuth in both server-side rendered contexts and client-side rendered contexts, in

Redirecting Users in PropelAuth

PropelAuth provides configurable UIs for login, signup, and org management. We host these for you so you can start testing them, even before you’ve written any code. One question we often get, however, is how can I redirect my user back to the right place after they login? Default

Product

API Key Authentication

We are excited to announce the release of API Key authentication, a powerful feature that adds another way for your users to make requests to your product. With API Keys, you can now create unique authentication keys for your end users and organizations, ensuring secure communication between your product and

Authentication

Abra-QR-dabra: Watch Passwordless Mobile Auth Magically Appear

A few days ago, a post on hacker news caught my eye, where folks were playing around with and linking to various QR Code designers. This got me to thinking, how quickly could I add a QR flow into our authentication processes? Starting Out For ease and speed, I wanted

React

Using useMutation to make an advanced toggle in React

Recently, we were adding some new functionality to our dashboard, and we wanted an experience like this: The basic features are: * The toggle should make an external request when clicked to change the setting * While the request is being made, a loading spinner should appear next to the toggle * If

Coding

Dev Tools to Make Debugging Easier

Throughout my career, I’ve found that debugging is one of the most valuable skills a developer can have. This can range from debugging small issues like “why is this test failing” to debugging large production issues across multiple systems. Most of us have had the experience of banging our

Product

Authentication in Go

We are thrilled to announce that we now officially support Go! If you want to skip right to it, you can check out our getting started guides or the reference documentation for our Go library. As with all of our libraries, there are a few major features that we provide:

Coding

What My Cousin Vinny can teach us about debugging

If you haven’t seen My Cousin Vinny yet, go watch it real quick, we’ll wait. Great movie, right? Marisa Tomei absolutely deserved her Academy Award. In case you didn’t watch a whole movie in between the first and second line of this post, the central plot of

Who can sign up for your product?

At PropelAuth, we believe that your authentication requirements will change over time. The features you need when building your MVP are very different from those you need as a Series C company. One of the best examples of this is how you handle signups. So let's look at a few

Product Featured

Announcing User Impersonation in PropelAuth

We are incredibly excited today to announce that User Impersonation support is now live in PropelAuth! User impersonation, masquerading, ghosting, assume identity, delegated access… this feature goes by a lot of different names. No matter what you call it, at a high level, the feature works like this: User impersonation

Coding

Custom Metadata: How It Works

Last week, we released a long awaited and asked for feature in PropelAuth, Custom Metadata on both users and organizations! However, the term “metadata” is nebulous and vague, so today we’re excited to walk through this new aspect of the product, and how you can start customizing to your

Authentication

PropelAuth Product Updates: Dashboard Revamp, Staging Env, and More

We are often working on large feature releases or product improvements, but this time around we have been hard at work on something truly large and impactful: a new and improved dashboard for PropelAuth! We wanted to walk through all of these changes to give you a sense of all

B2B

Why Our Startup Program Has No Time Limit

When I first founded PropelAuth, I had an idea of what I felt was wrong with authentication tools today. The idea was largely based on my own personal experiences and where I felt existing tools were lacking. Fast forward to a few months later, I had done some basic user

Guide

Building a production ready LLM application with BerriAI, PropelAuth, and Next.js

Berri.ai is a powerful product that allows you to easily add AI to your applications. You can, for example, create a chatbot that can answer questions about blog posts that you write just by passing in the contents of the blog post. In this post, we’ll show how

B2B

PropelAuth’s Annual Security Audit (2023)

PropelAuth is deeply committed to the security of data within our platform. We have features like 2FA, enterprise SSO/SAML, brute force detection, custom roles & permissions for RBAC - all to make sure everyone’s accounts are protected and you can build secure applications on top of us. Furthering this

Founder

Don't forget this on your YC application

I was fortunate enough to go through YC with my company PropelAuth for the W22 batch. As an authentication company, we have a lot of customers that are early stage startups themselves and I often get asked what the secret is to getting in to YC. Let me just start