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    Guides Overview

    Overview

    This section contains guides which walk through various aspects of FusionAuth functionality. These documents are meant to give you thorough understanding of the technology covered. They should be used in conjunction with the API documentation.

    • Application Specific Email Templates - configure application specific email templates

    • Authentication Tokens - a way to authenticate users without passwords

    • Exposing a Local Instance - How to do this using ngrok, and why you might consider doing so

    • JSON Web Tokens - Using JWTs with FusionAuth

    • Key Master - managing signing keys

    • Localization and Internationalization - FusionAuth’s support for i18n and l10n

    • MFA/Two Factor Authentication - how to set up multi-factor authentication in FusionAuth

    • Multi-Tenant - how to set up multi-tenancy in FusionAuth

    • Registration-based Email Verification - how to verify emails at the registration level

    • Searching Users With Elasticsearch - how to search for users

    • Securing Your APIs - options for securing APIs using FusionAuth

    • Silent Mode - what is silent mode and why do you care

    • Single Sign-on - single sign-on between FusionAuth applications

    We also have the following guides which document FusionAuth setup and installation:

    • 5 Minute Setup Guide

    • Installation Guides, including Docker, Homebrew and others

    • Migration Guides, including for Keycloak, Auth0 and More

    Additional Information

    Here is useful additional information about how FusionAuth works.

    • Core Concepts - core concepts of FusionAuth, including walkthroughs of crucial admin UI screens.

    • Theming - how to modify the hosted login pages to look like your application

    • Lambdas - how to run custom logic at certain points in the login flow

    • APIs - almost all functionality is available via an API.

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