Passport.js
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Passport.js is the oldest auth library still standing in Node.js. It has a 'strategy' for every auth method imaginable — local, GitHub, Google, Twitter, SAML, LDAP. Plug in strategies like LEGO bricks. It's not glamorous but it's battle-tested.
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