What should we use for user authentication?

[fatchat]

User authentication... Firebase, Supabase, or just do it ourself?

As of today (2023-03-28) this is where we are:

• Not crazy about Firebase because Google / possible lock-in
• Not crazy about Supabase because the project might not live long-term

Doing it ourselves with password-auth isn't terrible - we wouldn't actually do it ourselves, we would use a library and resist any temptations to be creative

Thoughts are welcome!

[dlobo]

any reason why we aren't just using built in Django authentication? why is this even an issue?

[fatchat]

Yes this is the "do it ourself" option... not terrible but not as easy as Firebase / Cognito if we're doing OAuth... if we stick to username + password options only then we don't need to think about it