Authentication & Authorization Packages
Authentication, authorization, and identity/session libraries for handling login, permissions, and access control securely (JWT, Passport, Sanctum).
Packages in Authentication & Authorization
jsonwebtoken
The de facto Node.js library for signing, verifying, and decoding JSON Web Tokens.
jose
Zero-dependency JWT, JWS, JWE, and JWK toolkit for Node.js, browsers, and edge runtimes.
jwt
A zero-dependency Go implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT) with pluggable HMAC, RSA, RSA-PSS, ECDSA, and Ed25519 signing methods.
cookie-parser
Express middleware that parses HTTP Cookie headers into req.cookies, with support for signed and JSON-encoded cookie values.
bcrypt.js
A zero-dependency, pure JavaScript implementation of bcrypt for hashing and verifying passwords in Node.js and the browser.
AWS SDK for Go v2
The official AWS SDK for Go — type-safe, modular clients for every AWS service.
PyJWT
A Python implementation of RFC 7519 for encoding, decoding, and verifying JSON Web Tokens.
Better Auth
The most comprehensive, framework-agnostic authentication and authorization framework for TypeScript.
google-auth
The foundational Python library for authenticating to Google Cloud and Google APIs with OAuth2, service accounts, and Application Default Credentials.
bcrypt
Battle-tested password hashing for Node.js using the adaptive bcrypt algorithm.
google-api-nodejs-client
Google's officially supported Node.js client library for calling hundreds of Google APIs with built-in OAuth 2.0, API key, and service-account auth.
passport
Simple, unobtrusive authentication middleware for Node.js with 480+ pluggable strategies.
express-rate-limit
Basic IP rate-limiting middleware for Express to throttle repeated requests and protect public APIs and sensitive endpoints.
cookie
Basic HTTP cookie parser and serializer for HTTP servers, with zero dependencies and full RFC 6265 support.
supabase-js
The official isomorphic JavaScript SDK for Supabase — database, auth, realtime, storage, and edge functions in one client.
