What is SuperTokens?
SuperTokens is an open-source authentication and session management system designed for developers. It handles many common authentication tasks like user sessions, access tokens, passwordless sign-in, and more, allowing developers to add user authentication and authorization to their applications quickly and securely.
Some key features of SuperTokens include:
- Session management - Create and manage user sessions with refresh tokens, access tokens, and session expiry
- Passwordless sign-in - Allow users to sign in easily using magic links or QR codes instead of passwords
- Third party sign-in - Support sign-in with Google, Facebook, Apple etc with easy integrations
- User management - APIs for managing user profiles, roles, permissions etc
- Security - Uses industry standard encryption, token rotation, secrets management etc to keep data secure
By handling complex authentication logic for developers, SuperTokens allows them to focus on building application functionality instead of spending time on auth. It's designed to integrate easily into any stack like React, Vue, Angular etc. Overall, it's a feature-rich authentication system that prioritizes both developer experience and security.