passport-local
Passport strategy for local username and password authentication.
Used in agent projects
39
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in auth and security libraries
#30 of 47
by use in those projects
Downloads
1.7M
npm, last 7 days, passport-local
GitHub stars
2,752
last push Feb 9, 2024
How passport-local is used
passport-local is a dependency in 39 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #30 of 47 in auth and security libraries. The most used alternative there is NextAuth.js. Projects that use it most often also use Passport.js (100.0%), Express (87.2%), ws (87.2%).
Often used with passport-local
| Passport.js | 100.0% of passport-local projects · 208.1× more than average |
|---|---|
| Express | 87.2% of passport-local projects · 13.5× more than average |
| ws | 87.2% of passport-local projects · 38.6× more than average |
| Zod | 87.2% of passport-local projects · 5.1× more than average |
| express-session | 84.6% of passport-local projects · 199.0× more than average |
| tsx | 84.6% of passport-local projects · 8.5× more than average |
| @jridgewell/trace-mapping | 82.1% of passport-local projects · 274.2× more than average |
| Radix UI | 82.1% of passport-local projects · 6.9× more than average |
By coding agent
| Cursor | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list passport-local as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install passport-local |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (34), Python (5) |
| Example projects | gopaljilab/Clinical-Insight-Engine, Hackbyrd/orbital-express |
Alternatives to passport-local
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NextAuth.js npm Complete open-source authentication solution designed for Next.js applications. |
266 (2.1%) | 6.7M | 28.4K | ISC |
| bcryptjs npm Pure JavaScript bcrypt implementation for secure password hashing without dependencies. |
256 (2.0%) | 14.7M | 3,797 | BSD-3-Clause |
| jsonwebtoken npm Create, verify and decode JSON Web Tokens for authentication and secure data transmission. |
241 (1.9%) | 59.3M | 18.2K | MIT |
| cryptography pypi Python library providing cryptographic recipes and primitives for secure applications. |
213 (1.7%) | 281M | 7,803 | — |
| jose npm Comprehensive JWT and JWK handling for Node.js and web runtimes. |
141 (1.1%) | 151M | 7,824 | MIT |
| PyJWT pypi Python library for encoding and decoding JSON Web Tokens. |
128 (1.0%) | 154M | 5,714 | — |
| Better Auth npm Comprehensive authentication framework for TypeScript with multiple strategies. |
126 (1.0%) | 11.4M | 30.2K | MIT |
| Helmet npm Express middleware that sets HTTP security headers to prevent vulnerabilities. |
125 (1.0%) | 16.2M | 10.7K | MIT |