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The author argues that while often overlooked, a trustworthy, simple, and easy onboarding process is essential for user confidence and retention. Key recommendations include allowing social media sign-up for one-click registration, avoiding redundant password confirmations, and providing instant, clear feedback on input validation and password requirements. Ultimately, the piece aims to equip designers with practical strategies to create a seamless and user-friendly entry point for any website or application.
This conversation from the Auth0 Community explores the best practices for authenticating an SDK that interacts with a backend API, particularly when the SDK is integrated into third-party applications. The primary focus is on using the client credential grant flow for machine-to-machine (M2M) authentication, where the SDK itself is the client, not an end-user. A key discussion point revolves around whether each SDK instance should directly request unique tokens from Auth0, or if a backend API should act as a secure middleman, caching and reusing M2M tokens for an entire application (even across multiple device instances) to mitigate rate limit concerns. Ultimately, the consensus is that it is acceptable and often recommended to store and reuse M2M tokens on the backend until they expire, as long as the backend is responsible for handling these tokens securely and the unique client ID and secret are still tied to each individual application integrating the SDK, rather than each device instance.
Social login (aka social sign-on) lets people authenticate to your app with an existing Google, Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn, GitHub, etc. account instead of creating another password-based profile Descope.
It rides on open standards (OAuth 2.0 + OIDC): the user clicks “Sign in with X,” is redirected to that provider, grants permission, and the provider returns an identity token your app trusts