Roll your own auth (split thread)

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@alzearafat

I think phoenix is still lack of core features. Like authentication for example. It’s confused me, why great framework such as Phoenix doesn’t have any auth built in it? ANY web app need it. Yes you can use 3rd-party libs such guardian, coherence, openmaize, etc, or even roll your own. But… Why? Srsly…

Phoenix/Rails/Django itself is a 3rd-party library.

That said I think authentication is such a crucial part of your app and I will never offload it to code that I (or my team) did not create or at least reviewed completely. My advise it to just invest some time in building your own authentication implementation, you will learn a lot from it and you will more confident in your app.