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...
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 an...
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 loadi...
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 signu...
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...
When it comes to online security and authentication, the term “Identity Provider” is often thrown around. But what does it actually mean? In simple terms, an Identity Provider (IdP) is a trusted service that authenticates and verifies the identity of...
Timing attacks Timing attacks are a class of malicious attacks against a product where the length of time that your application takes to perform a task leaks some information. Take, for example, an application that takes in an email and password to c...
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’...
Amongst the crowd of acronyms in the authentication space, 2FA, or Two Factor Authentication, seems to be one of the more self explanatory names. But what actually goes into 2FA, and how does it factor into authentication as a whole? What is 2FA? 2FA...
