Migrating your auth to Stytch

This migration guide covers the process of migrating your app's existing authentication system over to Stytch. Here we provide generalized guidance which applies to any authentication setup, including authentication built in-house as well as Auth0, AWS Cognito, and Google Firebase.

This set of migration guides assumes you are using Stytch’s Consumer APIs and SDKs. If you are using our B2B APIs, please see our B2B Migration Guides.

In order to complete any of the migration guides, you'll need the following:

• A Stytch account if you don't have one already.
• A Stytch Consumer Auth project. If you don't have one already, in the Dashboard, click on your existing project name in the top left corner of the Dashboard, click Create a new project, and then select Consumer Authentication.
• The project Test environment's project_id and secret from the API keys section. You'll need to pass these values into the Authorization request header for every Stytch API call.

Before you start, you should consider the following questions about your migration requirements:

• What are your application surface areas? Do you have a web app, mobile app, or both?

• Does your user base use passwords? Are there passwordless users? A mix of both?

• How many authentication factors do your users have? Do your users have only one primary factor like email? Or multiple factors like email and phone?

• Where is authentication handled in your stack? Will you be integrating the Stytch API and SDKs into your backend or frontend?

Depending on how you answered the previous questions, our recommended approaches and strategies will differ. We've split them into multiple step-by-step guides organized by migration use cases:

1. Static data migration strategy
2. Dynamic data migration strategy
3. Migrating authentication related logic
4. Deploying your Stytch integration to production
5. Exporting from Stytch

To understand if migrating data statically or dynamically is a better strategy for you, see our high level recommendations below:

To start, we recommend checking out the migrating user data guides — statically or dynamically.