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Clerk
Complete user management and authentication with drop-in UI and vanilla JavaScript SDK.
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Supabase Auth
Open-source authentication supporting passwordless logins, OAuth providers, and JWTs.
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Authentication & User Management Developer FAQ
Common architecture questions, security guidelines, and implementation tips for static websites.
Can I have user login and member-only pages on a purely static website?
Yes. Static authentication services (like Outseta, Supabase Auth, or Auth0) embed lightweight client-side JavaScript into your static HTML pages. They manage user registration, session tokens, JWTs, and gated access controls entirely from the client and edge.
How do I protect private static content from unauthorized users?
You can protect content either through client-side routing guards (showing or hiding DOM elements based on authentication state) or through Edge Functions (such as Cloudflare Pages Functions or Netlify Edge Functions) that verify JWT cookies before returning private static assets.
Does static site user authentication support OAuth social logins?
Yes, modern static identity providers natively support Google, GitHub, Apple, and passwordless magic links out of the box with minimal JavaScript snippets.
How are sensitive customer passwords stored?
Static identity providers handle all hashing, salting, encryption, and SOC 2 / GDPR compliance on secure identity infrastructure, so your static repository never touches or stores raw credentials.
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