Passport vs Azure Multi-Factor Authentication: What are the differences?
Developers describe Passport as "Simple, unobtrusive authentication for Node.js". It is authentication middleware for Node.js. Extremely flexible and modular, It can be unobtrusively dropped in to any Express-based web application. A comprehensive set of strategies support authentication using a username and password, Facebook, Twitter, and more. On the other hand, Azure Multi-Factor Authentication is detailed as "It helps safeguard access to data and applications while maintaining simplicity for users". It helps safeguard access to data and applications while maintaining simplicity for users. It provides additional security by requiring a second form of authentication and delivers strong authentication via a range of easy to use authentication methods. Users may or may not be challenged for MFA based on configuration decisions that an administrator makes.
Passport and Azure Multi-Factor Authentication can be primarily classified as "User Management and Authentication" tools.
Passport is an open source tool with 17.2K GitHub stars and 1.02K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Passport's open source repository on GitHub.