Understand the differences between the various ways to manage signers and pick the right one for your app
Neynar provides three options for adding sign-in with Farcaster in your app to create maximum flexibility for developers. In this guide, we’ll break down all the methods, and by the end of this guide, you’ll know which option to use based on your needs.
The three options are:
[Recommended for most developers]
When utilizing Neynar sponsored signers, developers are relieved from building any part of auth or signer flows. SIWN is plug-and-play on the web and React Native. See SIWN: Connect Farcaster Accounts on how to start using it.
Benefits of using Neynar-sponsored signers:
Tradeoff:
This is the simplest approach to add Farcaster read+write auth to your product and is recommended for most developers.
Neynar-managed signers empower developers to maintain their branding and direct control over their signers while delegating secure storage and signing to Neynar. With Neynar-managed signers, you generate the signers yourself but register them with Neynar. This lets you showcase your branding on the Warpcast connect page and utilize Neynar’s features.
Benefits of using Neynar-managed signers:
Tradeoffs of this approach are:
Developer-managed signers enable developers to retain custody of the signers while utilizing Neynar to interface with the protocol efficiently.
Neynar helps with developer-managed signers in the following ways:
Developer-managed signers empower developers with greater control and flexibility over signer custody. At the same time, Neynar provides essential tools and optimizations to improve message publication and reliability.
The tradeoffs of this approach are needing to:
This is the most complex way of adding Farcaster read+write to your product and is not recommended unless you want to manage everything regarding signers.
Understand the differences between the various ways to manage signers and pick the right one for your app
Neynar provides three options for adding sign-in with Farcaster in your app to create maximum flexibility for developers. In this guide, we’ll break down all the methods, and by the end of this guide, you’ll know which option to use based on your needs.
The three options are:
[Recommended for most developers]
When utilizing Neynar sponsored signers, developers are relieved from building any part of auth or signer flows. SIWN is plug-and-play on the web and React Native. See SIWN: Connect Farcaster Accounts on how to start using it.
Benefits of using Neynar-sponsored signers:
Tradeoff:
This is the simplest approach to add Farcaster read+write auth to your product and is recommended for most developers.
Neynar-managed signers empower developers to maintain their branding and direct control over their signers while delegating secure storage and signing to Neynar. With Neynar-managed signers, you generate the signers yourself but register them with Neynar. This lets you showcase your branding on the Warpcast connect page and utilize Neynar’s features.
Benefits of using Neynar-managed signers:
Tradeoffs of this approach are:
Developer-managed signers enable developers to retain custody of the signers while utilizing Neynar to interface with the protocol efficiently.
Neynar helps with developer-managed signers in the following ways:
Developer-managed signers empower developers with greater control and flexibility over signer custody. At the same time, Neynar provides essential tools and optimizations to improve message publication and reliability.
The tradeoffs of this approach are needing to:
This is the most complex way of adding Farcaster read+write to your product and is not recommended unless you want to manage everything regarding signers.