Is this for you?
Sign-in looks simple and is easy to get subtly wrong. Accounts, password resets, social login, sessions, and roles each have details that matter, and an app that grows past a demo needs them done properly.
For example:
- Adding Google or Microsoft sign-in to an existing app
- Giving staff and customers different permissions
- Replacing a homemade login with a proper provider
What Blue Pixel delivers
- Sign-in with email, or with Google, Microsoft, Apple, or GitHub
- An authentication provider chosen to fit, or your existing one reviewed
- Sessions and tokens handled securely
- Roles and permissions, checked on the server rather than only in the browser
- Account flows: sign-up, verification, password reset
How the work goes
Understand who uses it
Customers, staff, partners: who signs in, and what each may see and do.
Choose the approach
A managed provider or your own, explained with its costs and trade-offs.
Build and test
Sign-in and permissions implemented, with tests for who can and cannot reach what.
What helps scope the work
It helps to know:
- How many kinds of user there are, and how fine-grained the permissions need to be
- Whether existing users and passwords need to be migrated
- Single sign-on or compliance requirements from your customers
Questions
Should I build my own sign-in?
Usually not. A managed provider handles most of the hard parts. Blue Pixel helps choose one and wires it in correctly, including the server-side checks a provider cannot do for you.
Can you add Google sign-in to an existing app?
Yes. Blue Pixel’s own site uses Google sign-in, with the code exchange done securely on the server.