Before you begin

This guide shows you how to use Okta as the user store for your web application and sign users in.

If you are building a single-page (browser) app, see Sign users in to your single-page application instead. Or, if you are building a server that returns API responses (but not HTML), see Protect your API endpoints.

This guide assumes that you:

• Have an Okta Developer Edition organization. (Don't have one? Create one for free.)
• Know the basics of building Web applications.
• Have a project or application that you want to add authentication to.
• Are building a web app that's rendered by a server.

If you don't have an existing app, or are new to building apps, start with this documentation: