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## 📑 Table of Contents
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- [🗺 Roadmap](#-roadmap)
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- [🌟 Why UltimateAuth](#-why-ultimateauth)
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- [🚀 Quick Start](#-quick-start)
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- [💡 Usage](#-usage)
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- [📘 Documentation](#-documentation)
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- [🤝 Contributing](#-contributing)
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- [⭐ Acknowledgements](#-acknowledgements)
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UltimateAuth is an open-source authentication framework that unifies secure session and token based authentication, modern PKCE flows, Blazor/Maui-ready client experiences, and a fully extensible architecture — all with a focus on clarity, lightweight design, and developer happiness.
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UltimateAuth is an open-source auth framework with platform-level capabilities that unifies secure session, cookie and token based Auth, modern PKCE flows, Blazor/Maui-ready client experiences - eliminating the complexity of traditional Auth systems while providing a clean, lightweight, extensible and developer-first architecture.
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## 🗺 Roadmap
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| Phase | Version | Scope | Status | Release Date |
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| ----------------------- | ------------- | ----------------------------------------- | -------------- | ------------ |
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| First Preview | 0.1.0-preview | "Stable" Preview Core | ✅ Completed | Last check |
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| First Release* | 0.1.0 | Fully Documented & Quality Tested | 🟡 In Progress | Q2 2026 |
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| Product Expansion | 0.2.0 | Full Auth Modes | 🟡 In Progress | Q2 2026 |
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| Security Expansion | 0.3.0 | MFA, Reauth, Rate Limiting | 🔜 Planned | Q2 2026 |
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| Infrastructure Expansion| 0.4.0 | Redis, Distributed Cache, Password Hasher | 🔜 Planned | Q2 2026 |
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| Multi-Tenant Expansion | 0.5.0 | Multi tenant management | 🔜 Planned | Q3 2026 |
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| Extensibility Expansion | 0.6.0 | Audit, events, hooks | 🔜 Planned | Q3 2026 |
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| Performance Expansion | 0.7.0 | Benchmarks, caching | 🔜 Planned | Q3 2026 |
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| Ecosystem Expansion | 0.8.0 | Migration tools | 🔜 Planned | Q4 2026 |
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| v1.0 | 1.0.0 | Locked API, align with .NET 11 | 🔜 Planned | Q4 2026 |
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*v 0.1.0 already provides a skeleton of multi tenancy, MFA, reauth etc. Expansion releases will enhance these areas.
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> The project roadmap is actively maintained as a GitHub issue:
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👉 https://github.com/CodeBeamOrg/UltimateAuth/issues/8
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We keep it up-to-date with current priorities, planned features, and progress. Feel free to follow, comment, or contribute ideas.
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<details>
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> UltimateAuth is currently in the final stage of the first preview release (v 0.1.0-preview).
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> Core architecture is complete and validated through working samples.
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> Ongoing work:
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> - Final API surface review
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> - Developer experience improvements
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> - EF Core integration polishing
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> - Documentation refinement
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</details>
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## 🌟 Why UltimateAuth: The Six-Point Principles
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### **1) Developer-Centric & User-Friendly**
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Clean APIs, predictable behavior, minimal ceremony — designed to make authentication *pleasant* for developers.
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### 1) Unified Authentication System
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One solution, one mental model — across Blazor Server, WASM, MAUI, and APIs.
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UltimateAuth eliminates fragmentation by handling client differences internally and exposing a single, consistent API.
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### **2) Security-Driven**
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PKCE, hardened session flows, reuse detection, event-driven safeguards, device awareness, and modern best practices.
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### 2) Plug & Play Ready
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### **3) Extensible & Lightweight by Design**
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Every component can be replaced or overridden.
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No forced dependencies. No unnecessary weight.
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Built-in capabilities designed for real-world scenarios:
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### **4) Plug-and-Play Ready**
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From setup to production, UltimateAuth prioritizes a frictionless integration journey with sensible defaults.
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- Automatic client profile detection (blazor server - WASM - MAUI)
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- Selectable authentication modes (Session / Token / Hybrid / SemiHybrid)
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- Device-aware sessions
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- PKCE flows out of the box
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- Unified session + token lifecycle
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- Event-driven extensibility
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### **5) Blazor & MAUI-Ready for Modern .NET**
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Blazor WebApp, Blazor WASM, Blazor Server, and .NET MAUI expose weaknesses in traditional auth systems.
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UltimateAuth is engineered from day one to support real-world scenarios across the entire modern .NET UI stack.
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No boilerplate. No hidden complexity.
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### **6) Unified Framework**
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One solution, same codebase across Blazor server, WASM and MAUI. UltimateAuth handles client differences internally and providing consistent and reliable public API.
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### 3) Developer-Centric
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Clean APIs, predictable behavior, minimal ceremony — designed to make authentication pleasant.
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### 4) Security as a First-Class Concern
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Modern security built-in by default:
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- PKCE support
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- Session reuse detection
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- Device tracking
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- Hardened auth flows
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- Safe defaults with extensibility
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Start simple, scale infinitely:
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- Works out of the box with sensible defaults
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- Replace any component when needed
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- No forced architecture decisions
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Designed specifically for real-world .NET environments:
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- Blazor Server
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Traditional auth solutions struggle here — UltimateAuth embraces it.
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# 🚀 Quick Start
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> ⏱ Takes ~2 minutes to get started
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### 1) Install packages (Will be available soon)
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### 5) 🗄️ Database Setup (EF Core)
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After configuring UltimateAuth with Entity Framework Core, you need to create and apply database migrations.
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5.1) Install EF Core tools (if not installed)
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- Migrations must be created in your application project, not in the UltimateAuth packages
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- You are responsible for managing migrations in production
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