Easy API Key Management for Node - A Sample App
When you build a REST API, creating the infrastructure to generate and manage API keys, OAuth tokens, and scopes can be tedious, risky and time-consuming. Fortunately, Stormpath just added API key...
View ArticleThe Problem with API Authentication in Express
Express has become a popular tool for building REST APIs, which rarely need features that most web frameworks ship with: session and cookie support, templating, etc. Since Express comes with none of...
View ArticleNew Pricing: More API Calls, More Options!
We’re excited to announce new pricing tiers for Stormpath! Since launching last year, we have kept our pricing stable and simple as we watched early customers use the API. Our goal: learn what our...
View ArticleBuilding and Deploying a Simple Express.js App with Stormpath and Heroku
Today we’re going to be building a simple web app with Express.js, Stormpath, and Heroku. The app we’re going to build is really basic. It will: Have a simple home page which links to a login /...
View ArticleUse JWT The Right Way!
JSON Web Token (JWT) is a useful standard becoming more prevalent, because it sends information that can be verified and trusted with a digital signature. In their most basic form, JWTs allow you to...
View ArticleA Simple Web App with Node.js, Express, Bootstrap & Stormpath -- in 15 Minutes
Here at Stormpath we <heart> Node.js – it’s so much fun to build with! We’re built several libraries to help node developers achieve user management nirvana in your applications. If you’ve built...
View ArticleBuild an API Service with Oauth2 Authentication, using Restify and Stormpath
Building APIs is a craft; you have you have to balance the integrity of your data model with with the convenience needs of your API consumers. As you build an API, you will come across these questions:...
View ArticleHosted Login and API Authentication for Python Apps
If you’re building Python web apps — you might have heard of our awesome Python libraries which make adding users and authentication into your web apps way easier: python-stormpath flask-stormpath...
View ArticleBootstrapping an Express.js App with Yeoman
So, you want to build an Express.js web application, eh? Well, you’re in the right place! In this short article I’ll hold your hand, sing you a song (not literally), and walk you through creating a...
View ArticleEasy Single Sign-On
Since the beginning of time, developers have been writing code to store and handle user accounts. Then Stormpath came out, and made that process a lot simpler. Instead of writing all that code...
View ArticleAll About Sessions in Node.js
Want to build a Node.js web app that wows and delights with secure, persistent login? Sounds like a job for sessions! In this post, you’ll learn what sessions are and how to implement them in your next...
View ArticleBalance Forecasting: Personal Finance Backed By Stormpath
Developer Robert Chitoiu had long relied on Quicken Online to forecast his bank account balance and make financial decisions. But when Intuit shut down the product, he couldn’t find anything similar...
View ArticleStormpath and Django
One of the really nice things about Django is that it ships with a fantastic ORM, user authentication, and admin panel. These three things make building secure Django websites incredibly easy, and...
View ArticleHow to Win at White Elephant
Friday night marked the Stormpath Annual Holiday Party, and ended two weeks of conspiracy and planning for the White Elephant gift exchange that would be played that night. We are not a rowdy bunch. We...
View ArticleMaking Python Authentication Fast
You know what’s really lame? Slow websites. Unfortunately, certain parts of the authentication process are supposed to be slow. This may seem counterintuitive, but slowness in the authentication...
View ArticleLaunch a SaaS – and Battle Your Robot – With Stormpath
Can a fighting robot be an educational tool? Jonathan Wagner thinks so. Wagner is the mastermind behind Gigabots, an educational robotics platform developed in conjunction with Mozilla that makes use...
View ArticleStay in Touch with Your Friends (Or Rick Roll Them) with TextThem
You have important dinner plans, you’re stuck late at the office, your phone is dead, and your charger is at home. There is nothing worse than not being able to call to say you’re going to be late,...
View ArticleHow CleverAnalytics Uses Stormpath for Token-Based Authentication in Java
This blogpost was written by the team at CleverAnalytics about their use of Stormpath and is reprinted from them with permission (and our thanks!). The updated Java SDK now includes token based...
View ArticleNew Year, New UI: Why We Chose Angular.js
We close this year with some thoughts about User Interfaces and why we chose to re-write ours in AngularJS. Two weeks ago Stormpath released our new Angular-based UI and our customers were so excited...
View ArticleTrialfire: Next Gen Web Analytics, Backed By Stormpath
Trialfire’s new visual editor for marketing analytics allows anyone to “pin” parts of a web page, such as a signup button, and send the event data automatically to multiple marketing/analytics systems:...
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