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How to add Auth0 authentication to a SwiftUI app

Joey deVilla in his home office, holding an “Einstein” rubber duck up to the camera.
C’mon, how many programming tutorial videos have a scene like this?

If you’re making an iOS app, the odds are pretty good that sooner or later, you’re going to have to integrate authentication — login and logout — into it. I show you how to do that with Auth0 in both a video…

…as well as a matching two-part article series that walks you through the process:

Both the video and article present how the final app will look and work:

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And then they’ll get you started with a starter project:

Joey deVilla appears in the corner of the screen showing the starter project of Auth0’s iOS/SwiftUI authentication video.
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I’ll walk you through the processes of getting Auth0 set up to recognize your app and creating a user with which to log in:

Joey deVilla appears in the corner of the screen showing the Auth0 dashboard in Auth0’s iOS/SwiftUI authentication video.
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And then, I’ll show you how to add login and logout to the project’s app:

Joey deVilla appears in the corner of the screen, while adding login and logout to the starter project of Auth0’s iOS/SwiftUI authentication video.
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And along the way, I’ll provide a brief intro to ID tokens, JWTs, and JWT.io:

Joey deVilla appears in the corner of the screen showing the JWT.io site in Auth0’s iOS/SwiftUI authentication video.
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Of course the video ends with an accordion number!

Joey deVilla plays accordion at the end of an Auth0 tutorial video.
Again, I ask: how many programming tutorial videos have a scene like this?

Once again, the here’s the video, How to Integrate Auth0 in a SwiftUI App, and here are the articles:

Whether you prefer to learn by watching video, reading, or a little bit of both, I hope you find these useful!