reactjs - Best authentication strategy for Ruby on Rails API only server (with ActiveAdmin)

Question

I have a project where I want to develop the frontend in Next.js (requests based on fetch API from JS) and the backend in RoR and I am having a hard time to get the User authentication to work. I have researched and found four possible solutions:

• Sessions and cookies
• JWT
• devise_token_auth
• devise-jwt

I have tried to implement some of them but i always end up getting a server error on client requests at some point. I would like to know if anyone has any resources where I can get to know more about and learn more about it so I can implement such authentication in my project.

If I could take advantage of devise would be even better, since I already have it setup for ActiveAdmin (wanna use the admin dashboard)

Thanks a lot in advance.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65846883/best-authentication-strategy-for-ruby-on-rails-api-only-server-with-activeadmin

Answer 1

I used to use devise, but have since moved to AWS Cognito which handles everything for you and is customizable as needed. You might look into it.

https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/