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Explore authentication from both sides of an application: protecting FastAPI documentation and connecting a Next.js interface to an authenticated backend. These projects explain setup, session boundaries, and where application-specific authorization still belongs.
Start with FastAPI DocShield for documentation access, or PyNextStack for a frontend and backend starter.
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HTTP Basic Auth on the OpenAPI docs endpoints for FastAPI
A tiny FastAPI extension that adds HTTP Basic Authentication to the Swagger UI, ReDoc, and OpenAPI JSON endpoints. Drop it in, set a username and password, and your API docs are no longer public. Useful when you want docs in production but not publicly indexable.
FastAPI backend, Next.js frontend, auth and profiles out of the box
A full-stack user management system with a Next.js frontend and FastAPI backend. Registration, authentication, profile management, and a Material-UI interface. Production-ready defaults so you can focus on your actual product instead of rebuilding the login form.
A FastAPI template with auth-protected endpoints, Redis, logging, and a custom dark-themed docs UI
A versatile FastAPI server template with authentication-protected endpoints, Redis caching, structured logging, and a custom dark theme for the API documentation. A solid foundation for production APIs that want opinions baked in from day one.
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