Enterprises use Ping Identity to manage secure access to their applications for their employees. In case your SaaS app is on its way to win an enterprise customer, you should support Single Sign-on (SSO) capability.
In this guide, let’s look at how you can add SSO to your SaaS app using React and NodeJS techstack. Towards the end of this guide, you will learn how to authenticate enterprise users using Ping Identity and successfully log into your applications.
Why SSO matters
Imagine your team juggles Outlook, Asana, and Confluence daily, each requiring a separate login. This creates password fatigue, security risks, and a high operational burden for IT teams.
With SSO, users log in once and seamlessly access multiple applications, which helps enhance login security by simplifying user identity verification and digital credential management. This tutorial will guide you through implementing SSO in a Node.js + React app using Ping Identity, with Scalekit simplifying authentication management.
What you'll build
By the end of this guide, you’ll:
Identify a user’s identity provider and verify end users' identities to authenticate them
Handle the authentication flow and manage session tokens
Securely log the user into your app using their Ping Identity credentials
Let’s get started! Follow along with the code using this GitHub repository. The README.md file provides setup instructions for local development.
Ping Identity in your auth flow
Authenticating your enterprise users takes a different approach. In this approach, enterprise users come to your app and click on “continue with SSO”. They should be redirected to Ping Identity to further authenticate, ensuring robust login security, and successfully log into your app.
Authentication workflow via Ping Identity
Our current application has two components—Backend and frontend. For the purposes of this guide, they are powered by NodeJS and ReactJS respectively.
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