Authorizer

Authorizer is an open-source authentication and authorization solution for your applications. Bring your database and have complete control over the user information. You can self-host authorizer instances and connect to any database (Currently supports 11+ databases including Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, SQLServer, YugaByte, MariaDB, PlanetScale, CassandraDB, ScyllaDB, MongoDB, ArangoDB).

For more information check:

• Docs
• Discord Community
• Contributing Guide

Introduction

We offer the following functionality

• ✅ Sign-in / Sign-up with email ID and password
• ✅ Secure session management
• ✅ Email verification
• ✅ OAuth2 and OpenID compatible APIs
• ✅ APIs to update profile securely
• ✅ Forgot password flow using email
• ✅ Social logins (Google, Github, Facebook, LinkedIn, Apple more coming soon)
• ✅ Role-based access management
• ✅ Password-less login with magic link login
• ✅ Multi factor authentication
• ✅ Email templating
• ✅ Webhooks

Roadmap

• VueJS SDK
• Svelte SDK
• Golang SDK
• React Native SDK
• Flutter SDK
• Android Native SDK
• iOS native SDK
• Python SDK
• PHP SDK
• WordPress plugin
• Kubernetes Helm Chart
• Local Stack
• AMI
• Digital Ocean Droplet
• Azure
• Render
• Edge Deployment using Fly.io
• Password-less login with mobile number and OTP SMS

Getting Started

Step 1: Get Authorizer Instance

Deploy Production Ready Instance

Deploy production ready Authorizer instance using one click deployment options available below

Infra provider	One-click link	Additional information
Railway.app		docs
Heroku		docs
Render		docs

Deploy Authorizer Using Source Code

This guide helps you practice using Authorizer to evaluate it before you use it in a production environment. It includes instructions for installing the Authorizer server in local or standalone mode.

Install using source code

Prerequisites

• OS: Linux or macOS or windows
• Go: (Golang)(https://golang.org/dl/) >= v1.15

Project Setup

1. Fork the authorizer repository (Skip this step if you have access to repo)
2. Clone repo: git clone https://github.com/authorizerdev/authorizer.git or use the forked url from step 1
3. Change directory to authorizer: cd authorizer
4. Create Env file cp .env.sample .env. Check all the supported env here
5. Build Dashboard make build-dashboard
6. Build App make build-app
7. Build Server make clean && make

   Note: if you don't have make, you can cd into server dir and build using the go build command. In that case you will have to build dashboard & app manually using npm run build on both dirs.

8. Run binary ./build/server

Deploy Authorizer using binaries

Deploy / Try Authorizer using binaries. With each Authorizer Release binaries are baked with required deployment files and bundled. You can download a specific version of it for the following operating systems:

• Mac OSX
• Linux

Download and unzip bundle

• Download the Bundle for the specific OS from the release page

Note: For windows, we recommend running using docker image to run authorizer.

• Unzip using following command

  • Mac / Linux

  tar -zxf AUTHORIZER_VERSION -c authorizer

• Change directory to authorizer

  cd authorizer

Step 3: Start Authorizer

• Run following command to start authorizer

  • For Mac / Linux users

  ./build/server

Note: For mac users, you might have to give binary the permission to execute. Here is the command you can use to grant permission xattr -d com.apple.quarantine build/server

Step 2: Setup Instance

• Open authorizer instance endpoint in browser
• Sign up as an admin with a secure password
• Configure environment variables from authorizer dashboard. Check env docs for more information

Note: DATABASE_URL, DATABASE_TYPE and DATABASE_NAME are only configurable via platform envs

Things to consider

• For social logins, you will need respective social platform key and secret
• For having verified users, you will need an SMTP server with an email address and password using which system can send emails. The system will send a verification link to an email address. Once an email is verified then, only able to access it.

  Note: One can always disable the email verification to allow open sign up, which is not recommended for production as anyone can use anyone's email address 😅

• For persisting user sessions, you will need Redis URL (not in case of railway app). If you do not configure a Redis server, sessions will be persisted until the instance is up or not restarted. For better response time on authorization requests/middleware, we recommend deploying Redis on the same infra/network as your authorizer server.

Testing

• Check the testing instructions here

Integrating into your website

This example demonstrates how you can use @authorizerdev/authorizer-js CDN version and have login ready for your site in few seconds. You can also use the ES module version of @authorizerdev/authorizer-js or framework-specific versions like @authorizerdev/authorizer-react

Copy the following code in html file

Note: Change AUTHORIZER_URL in the below code with your authorizer URL. Also, you can change the logout button component

<script src="https://unpkg.com/@authorizerdev/authorizer-js/lib/authorizer.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
	const authorizerRef = new authorizerdev.Authorizer({
		authorizerURL: `YOUR_AUTHORIZER_INSTANCE_URL`,
		redirectURL: window.location.origin,
		clientID: 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID', // obtain your client id from authorizer dashboard
	});

	// use the button selector as per your application
	const logoutBtn = document.getElementById('logout');
	logoutBtn.addEventListener('click', async function () {
		await authorizerRef.logout();
		window.location.href = '/';
	});

	async function onLoad() {
		const res = await authorizerRef.authorize({
			response_type: 'code',
			use_refresh_token: false,
		});
		if (res && res.access_token) {
			// you can use user information here, eg:
			const user = await authorizerRef.getProfile({
				Authorization: `Bearer ${res.access_token}`,
			});
			const userSection = document.getElementById('user');
			const logoutSection = document.getElementById('logout-section');
			logoutSection.classList.toggle('hide');
			userSection.innerHTML = `Welcome, ${user.email}`;
		}
	}
	onLoad();
</script>

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