🌈 Should I Customise AIOHA or Build from Scratch? 🤔 (A Hive Dev Adventure)

🚀 Hello Hive Community! 🐝

Welcome, awesome Hive fam!
Today, let’s put on our techie hats 🧢 and embark on a (sometimes bumpy) ride through my AIOHA integration journey. Spoiler: 🍋 Easy-peasy…until it’s not! Let’s sprinkle some fun, fresh tips, share the facepalm moments, and map out what works for Hive auth—AIOHA style!

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✨ Why I Consider Building Hive Authentication From Scratch

When it comes to integrating Hive-auth, AIOHA looked like a knight in shining armor for 3-4 months. But now, the real question is… should I customise it or build fresh? Let’s dive in with some lemon-tastic takes! 🍋👇

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🙌 It's So Easy... Until It's Not!

• For months, @aioha made my dev life a walk in the park 🌳.
• Plug and play with blockchain stuff? ✅ Instantly solved!
• Auto Hive login? ✅. Broadcast any transaction? ✅.
• Account switching? Triple yes! 🕺🪩

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🧈 So, Where’s the Butter Slippery?

Of course, not everything’s smooth sailing... Butter sometimes slips from the bread! 🧈🍞
Let’s break down each hiccup so you can LOL and learn from my adventures.

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❓ Login But Not Logged In (Wait, What?! 🙃)

• Had a user saying, “Logged in… but no data!” 🚫📊
• Dug deeper, and boom! Login-API flaked. No JWT token. 🍂
• Not AIOHA’s fault—server hiccup during a restart.
• User felt logged in, but backend said “Nope.”
• Pro tip: If API fails, aioha.logout(); to the rescue!
  (But hang on, more curveballs coming up… 🎢)

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🕵️ Is User Logged In or Logged Out? Schrödinger's Session! 🧪

• JWT tokens expire after 30 days ⏰ (session goes kaboom).
• But AIOHA? Keeps the “session” alive forever like an energetic puppy 🐶.
• Result: Must write extra code to sync token expiry AND AIOHA session—
  Or users become session zombies 👻 (logged out but shhh, don’t tell AIOHA).

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🔄 Switch User: Magical Yet Messy 🧙‍♂️

• On surface: Easy peasy! UI account switcher – tick! 🟢
• Problem: App doesn’t know about the switch unless you listen for special events 🦻
• More fun: You gotta roll your own code to handle tokens of switched users.
• Double trouble: What if session is expired but user switched via AIOHA? Uh-oh. 🫠

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🔐 Private Key Based Login: The Lone Wolf 🐺

• AIOHA says “nope” to multiple private-posting-key logins—one at a time only 🔑😞.
• Advocates server-side use (client side = 🚨 security risk!).
• Some users (like @starkerz) LOVE logging in with multiple private-posting keys, but can’t do easily.

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🎨 ReactUI: Not My Style 💃

• AIOHA’s ReactUI may clash with your app’s theme. 🎭
• So you end up building your own UI…and then, why not build the core too from scratch? 🤷

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📝 Features I Miss (AIOHA Wishlist) 🌟

• Disabling the “View in Explorer” button? Nope ❌
• Click event for log-out? Only with disconnect event—no direct callback 🙃
• No avatars—neither on user lists nor during username typing! 🫥
• “One-click log out from all accounts” = still on my wishlist 📝

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🎯 Conclusion

All in all, AIOHA is a fantastic starter kit 🚀.
Perfect for hackathons, jumpstarts, or prototypes.
But when you want custom features, you might hit the feature ceiling!
What AIOHA built is brilliantly general. What we need? Sometimes, a tailor-made suit! 🕴️

I hope this fun breakdown helps fellow devs who want to integrate @aioha in their Hive projects!
Happy coding, Hive friends. Let’s keep building, laughing, and sharing the bumps along the blockchain! 🐝💻😄

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• Have you had a wacky auth adventure? Tell me below! ⬇️ Sharing = caring!
• More power to @aioha & dev of aioha - @techcoderx
• More power to open-source contributors on hive blockchain
• More power to hive community members
• More power to Hive
• Hive to the moon & beyond.

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📝 Final Note

• I asked ChatGPT/AI to help optimize this post to make it more readable and viewer-friendly.
• Here is the link where you can find both original content & improvements made by AI
• https://www.perplexity.ai/search/67af7ebe-8113-40c7-a03d-3e7009d7804f

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