What does it do?

Simple Auth is an ember addon meant to be used for authentication regardless of your application structure.

It maintains the clientside session
It authenticates the user to your backend server or other providers (Facebook, Google, ...)
It authorizes requests

How does it work?

Ember Simple Auth consists of 4 main building blocks - the session, a session store, authenticators and (optionally) authorizers.

The session service provides methods for authenticating and invalidating the session.
The session store persists the session state so that it survives a page reload. It also synchronizes the session state across multiple tabs or windows of the application
Authenticators authenticate the session using multiple authentication services such as Facebook, Google or Github
Authorizers use the data retrieved by an authenticator and stored in the session to generate authorization data that can be injected into outgoing requests such as Ember Data requests.