MachineLearning

Production-Ready OpenAI (GPT) Template

OpenAI has a great quickstart template to help build applications using their APIs. Their APIs have been used for pretty much everything at this point, like generating marketing copy, procedural games, and even code. Their template uses Next.js on both the frontend and backend, utilizing Next.js Serverless API

Python

React/Python + Chalice Starter App

In this guide, we’ll build an example B2B application in React where users can sign up, login, manage their accounts, and view organization and member information, PropelAuth, React, Python, and Chalice. We're going to use the following technologies for this blog post: * React.js - for our frontend * Python

Flask

React/Flask Starter App

In this guide, we’ll build an example B2B application in React where users can sign up, login, manage their accounts, and view organization and member information, PropelAuth, React, and Flask. We're going to use the following technologies for this blog post: * React.js - for our frontend * Flask -

Express

React/Express Starter App

In this guide, we’ll build an example B2B application in React where users can sign up, login, manage their accounts, and view organization and member information, PropelAuth, React, and Express. We're going to use the following technologies for this blog post: * React.js - for our frontend * Express (Node.

B2B

Adding Multi-Account Support to Your Product

When starting a startup, the initial focus is usually on getting your product into peoples hands as quickly as possible. You want to cut any features that aren’t important so you can find out if you are heading in the right direction - this is usually known as making

Guide

React/Fast API Starter Guide

In this guide, we’ll build an example B2B application in React where users can sign up, login, manage their accounts, and view organization and member information, all using PropelAuth, React, and FastAPI. We're going to use the following technologies for this blog post: * React.js - for our frontend

Passwordless

5 Creative Uses of Magic Links

Magic links, also known as passwordless logins or one-time links, have become an increasingly popular way to improve the user experience and increase security for various online applications and services. Magic links typically work like this: This comes with some nice benefits, for example, you don’t need a separate

Guide

Next.js Multi-Tenant Starter Application

In this guide, we’ll build an example B2B application in Next.js where users can sign up, login, manage their accounts, and view organization and member information, all using PropelAuth and NextJS. We're going to use the following technologies for walkthrough: * Next.js - for our frontend and backend

Authentication for Cloudflare Workers

We are thrilled to announce the release of @propelauth/cloudflare-worker - a Javascript/Typescript library that makes it easy to add authentication and authorization to your Cloudflare Workers. With this, you can write code as simple as: export default { async fetch(request: Request, env: Env, ctx: ExecutionContext): Promise { try

Coding

Clean Code with Rust & Axum

One of my favorite parts of the book Clean Code was seeing a code snippet that starts off gross and unmanageable and watching it iteratively improve. In this post, we’re going to do the same thing but specifically use a close-to real-world example with Rust and Axum. For each

Product

Rust Authentication with PropelAuth

We are incredibly excited to release the propelauth crate, which you can use to add authentication and authorization to your Rust backend. We have support built out for Actix and Axum, as well as a generic library that can be used in any other framework.

Guide

React Hooks for Multi-Tenancy and Authorization w/ PropelAuth

Say you built a SaaS application for restaurants to track information about their orders. There are multiple people at the restaurants who need access to this information. There’s an owner, there are managers, and there are frontline employees who need access too. Each of these users will have different

Founder

Not Another Cold Email: How to successfully ask for product feedback

It takes a village to raise a child start a company. Whether you’re looking for user testimonials, searching for beta testers, or trying to expand your network, as a founder, it can seem like you’re constantly asking for help. If you’re an introvert, you might dread sending

Authentication

Roles and Permissions in Plain English

Let’s say you build newspaper websites for local newspapers. Your simplest product is a newspaper website where everyone can post articles and everyone can read them. That’s not good.

Coding

Drawing a Turkey with CSS

We learned how to generate arbitrary shapes with CSS. We then learned how to scale, rotate, and position those shapes in order to create your own artwork. While you probably shouldn’t create giant works of art in pure CSS, you can use these techniques to add a little more pizzazz to your designs.

Founder

Should You Turn Your Side Project Into a Business?

Say you’ve been building an app as a side project over the past year. Maybe it started out as a hobby to take your mind off of your day job or perhaps it’s an idea that’s been lingering in your head for years. But now you have

RBAC

Adding Customizable Roles and Permissions to PropelAuth

We’re happy to share the latest update to PropelAuth—adding more customizability to role based access control (RBAC), so you can have full control over what your users can see and do within your product.

Founder

The Startup Founder’s Gift Guide

Being a founder isn’t easy, but it doesn’t have to be all hard work and no play. Whether they’re still crafting their mission statement or about to start a fundraising round, here are ten gift ideas to make the entrepreneur in your life feel extra special.

Product

Should You Disable Public Signups?

By manually onboarding your users, you can invite selected users while keeping your product private to the greater public. In this blog we’ll highlight different scenarios where it’s beneficial to disable public signups for your company.

Next.js

How We Incrementally Migrated to Next.js and Vercel

Recently, we switched our marketing site over to Next.js and Vercel. Our frontend developers are able to create designs in a format they are already comfortable with (CSS and React). Our marketing team is happy that they can make changes without needing an engineer in the loop.

Guide

Serverless Multi-Tenant Python Apps Made Easy with Chalice and PropelAuth

Serverless functions are very powerful but historically have a poor developer experience. Chalice allows us to quickly deploy API routes with very little code. When combined with PropelAuth—we can have a full enterprise-ready multi-tenant application quickly and easily.

Authentication

Understanding Auth Terminology with Examples Part Two

In our first post, we defined some common auth terminology to help clarify the jargon used when discussing ‘auth’. There’s no shortage of terminology, so here’s part two of commonly used words. Magic Link/Passwordless Passwordless login is just that—a login without a password. Because most users

Product

Custom Organization Naming

When users sign up for your product, do they sign up as individuals or in groups? If you are building a B2B product, they likely sign up in groups alongside their coworkers. But what do you call these groups?

Coding

Generating Chess Puzzles with Genetic Algorithms

We took a library used for function minimization, attached Stockfish to it, and used it to generate surprisingly complex mate in 3 chess puzzles without too much code. Libraries like this excite me because it feels like the limit is your imagination and your ability to transform ideas into code.

SSO

ELI5: SAML

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an authentication feature that grants users access to different company web applications using their employee login credentials.