Product

Email Template Updates

It's day 3 of our Launch Week and we are excited to share that our email templates have gotten a makeover! When it comes to authentication related emails, there are two things that need to be considered: aesthetics and deliverability. From an aesthetic perspective, the emails need to

Product

PropelAuth's Terraform Provider

Authentication is a critical part of your infrastructure. And just like other pieces of infrastructure, you’ll want an easy way to update, revert, and audit configuration changes. That’s why we are excited to share: PropelAuth’s Terraform provider is out of beta! You can write HCL like this:

Authentication

Authentication with Next App Router and Supabase

In this guide, we’ll build an example Next.js application with PropelAuth and Supabase. We cover the App Router version of Next.js 13, and demonstrate how to create an application that manages both users and organizations using PropelAuth. Create a PropelAuth Project The first step is to create

Authentication

Authentication with Next.js and Supabase

In this guide, we’ll build an example Next.js server-side rendered application with PropelAuth and Supabase. We cover the Pages Router version of Next.js 13, and demonstrate how to create an application that manages both users and organizations using PropelAuth. Create a PropelAuth Project The first step

Product

User Impersonation Approval Flows

Today, we’re announcing an upgrade to one of our most popular features: User Impersonation. As a quick refresher, User Impersonation makes it possible for your employees to start a session as one of your users. This makes things like debugging issues and running in-app sales demos simple. This

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.

RBAC

Gating Paid Features with PropelAuth’s Role Mappings

Learn how to use role mappings to set roles and permissions that gate features based on the user's pricing plan.

Python

PropelAuth Python v4 Release

Today, we are excited to release a new version of our base Python library, as well as releases of our framework-specific libraries for FastAPI, Flask, and Django Rest Framework. Let’s jump in to some of the larger changes! Better Typing Support (breaking change) If you’ve used our

API Key Authentication

Securing a GenAI Service with API Key Validation and Trial Management

Learn how to secure a GenAI service with PropelAuth's API key authentication, custom user properties, and account management features.

Next.js

Protecting a Multi-tenant Next.js client/server app with PropelAuth

Learn how to create a B2B Next.js app that creates digital coupons on demand using OpenAI's API and PropelAuth to secure it.

Streamlit

Building internal AI tools with Streamlit

Most companies have a ton of valuable data internally. This could be analytics data on your customers interactions with your product. This could be an audit log of actions taken within the product (which is another way to see when different features are enabled). Even if you are a small

Authentication

Limiting sign ups with PropelAuth

PropelAuth offers a variety of customization options when it comes to controlling who can access your product - everything from completely disabling public signups to specifically blocking users with specific email domains. Who Can Signup The majority of customization options for who can access your product are found in the PropelAuth

FastAPI

FastAPI Auth with Dependency Injection

FastAPI is a modern web framework for building APIs in Python. It’s one of my personal favorite web frameworks as it has built-in support for OpenAPI specs (meaning you can write your backend code and generate everything from it) and it supports dependency injection. In this post, we’

Coding

Libraries for writing raw SQL safely

One of my responsibilities at PropelAuth is writing example apps / guides in various languages / frameworks. It’s truly one of the most fun parts of my job. I get to play around with different stacks, new and old, and figure out the best ways to support our customers. Because of

Remix

Remix Authentication

We are very excited to officially release the @propelauth/remix library - a library that makes it incredibly easy to add authentication, authorization, and multi-tenancy to your Remix apps. If you want to jump straight to the docs, you can do so here. Choosing a JS Framework When it comes

Case Study

CarbonHQ: a better way to manage carbon projects

PropelAuth is proud to be the auth provider of choice for companies working to make the world a better place. In this series, we’ll showcase some of our customers who are tackling issues in sustainability, climate change and greentech. Company Name: CarbonHQ Company Website: https://www.carbonhq.earth/ Founders:

Case Study

Own Your Beliefs: easily invest in our planet

PropelAuth is proud to be the auth provider of choice for companies working to make the world a better place. In this series, we’ll showcase some of our customers who are tackling issues in sustainability, climate change and greentech. Company Name: Own Your Beliefs Company Website: https://www.ownyourbeliefs.

Sustainability Series

CarbonBright: friction free product environmental impact info

PropelAuth is proud to be the auth provider of choice for companies working to make the world a better place. In this series, we’ll showcase some of our customers who are tackling issues in sustainability, climate change and greentech. Company Name: CarbonBright Company Website: https://carbonbright.co/ Founders: David

Coding

Guide to Dependency Injection with FastAPI's Depends

One of the first concepts I learned at my first job was dependency injection. In this post we'll go over what it is and how to effectively use it, with FastAPI’s depends.

Product

PropelAuth July Updates

Hope you’re all having a great summer! We’ve got a lot of exciting news for you, so let's jump right in. Audit Logging Whether you want it for debugging purposes, or you just like to keep an eye on things - audit logging is the best way

React

Complete Guide to State Management in React

If you are writing a React application, you are almost certainly managing state somewhere. State is surprisingly hard to define, but easier to understand with examples: * An input box has state - which is often just the value in the input box. * A form has state - which is usually all the

Guide

React/FastAPI Starter Guide

This guide walks through the process of setting up authentication using PropelAuth on top of a product built in FastAPI & React. Setting up our Authentication UIs PropelAuth provides UIs for signup, login, and account management, so we don’t need to build them ourselves. To get started, let’s

Java

Spring Boot Authentication and Authorization w/ Spring Security

Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade applications. Spring Security is the standard for securing Spring-based applications. In this post, we’ll look at a common way to set up Spring Boot as your backend with a separate frontend (with something like React, for example)

Product

PropelAuth June Updates

We’ve had a bunch of miscellaneous changes go out over the past couple of weeks - here’s a roundup: * New SSO option: Login with Apple * New Framework: We officially support Spring Boot - you can read our guide here. * New user management feature: You can now see and manage pending

Product

Advanced Roles and Permissions

Today we’re bringing our RBAC system to the next level with the addition of Roles & Permission Mappings. Mappings make it possible for you to configure roles and permissions on a per-org basis. It’s best explained by an example: * You have two pricing plans: Free and Paid