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Stop Building Auth From Scratch — Meet authwall: The Plug-and-Play Auth System for Express

DEV Community·susheel kumar·6 months ago
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The Problem

Every Node.js developer knows the drill. You're building an Express app, and suddenly you need:

User authentication

Role-based access control

Admin panels

Audit logs

Rate limiting

2FA support

That's days of coding, testing, and debugging security vulnerabilities.

The Solution

Meet authwall — a complete, production-ready authentication system that drops into any Express + MongoDB app in 60 seconds .

// That's literally it const { authwall } = require ( ' authwall ' ); authwall ( app , { config : { jwt : { secret : process . env . JWT_SECRET } } });

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What You Get Out of the Box

Feature Status

Email OTP login ✅

JWT authentication ✅

Role-based access (RBAC) ✅

Full admin REST API ✅

User suspension/banning ✅

Two-factor authentication (TOTP) ✅

Audit logs with request IDs ✅

Rate limiting ✅

CSV user export ✅

Bulk operations ✅

Impersonation mode ✅

Event system for webhooks ✅

Why Developers Love It

"I was about to spend 3 days building…

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