Passport vs Userbase: What are the differences?
What is Passport? 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.
What is Userbase? Add user accounts and persistence to your static site. It is the easiest way to add user accounts and data persistence to your static site. All Userbase features are accessible through a very simple JavaScript SDK, directly from the browser. No backend necessary.
Passport and Userbase can be categorized as "User Management and Authentication" tools.
Passport and Userbase are both open source tools. It seems that Passport with 16.9K GitHub stars and 999 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Userbase with 904 GitHub stars and 35 GitHub forks.