Auth | Robust role-based access control

Authentication made easy.

Leverage Directus' user system or your own SSO and easily build user accounts into your application with robust permissions.

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Native and token-based authentication

Authenticate with API using email/password, or token-based authentication.

Invite users or create them directly

Invite users to your project or directly create them from your instance.

Free and flexible SSO

Built-in JWT auth supports SSO via OAuth, SAML, OpenID, and LDAP with 2FA support.

const user = await client.request(
	createUser({ 
		email: 'user@example.com',
		password: 'hunter2'
	})
);

const user = await client.login(email, password);

const { subscription } = await client.subscribe('messages');

for await (const item of subscription) {
	console.log('subscription', { item });
}
 
/*
{
	"type": "subscription",
	"event": "create",
	"data": [{
		"id": 1,
		"text": "Hello World"
	}]
}
*/

const { subscription } = await client.subscribe('messages');

for await (const item of subscription) {
	console.log('subscription', { item });
}

/*
{
	"type": "subscription",
	"status": "error",
	"error": {
		"code": "FORBIDDEN",
		"message": "You don't have permission to access this."
	}
}
*/

If the team scales from 100 to 300 people, it's not a problem at all. Whereas setting up new permissions used to take hours, with Directus, it’s a two-minute change.

Wayne Eldridge

Founder, Enamic

Editor

Create and manage data in custom extensible forms.

Connect

Generate REST and GraphQL APIs for any database.

Realtime

Sync live data over WebSockets and GraphQL Subscriptions.

Building out the backend with Directus was really fast, and the platform has everything we needed – security, users, roles, permissions and more.We simply could not have delivered this amount of value for our customers with custom development only.