Better Auth – Authentication library for TypeScript

Recent and related:<p><i>Show HN: Comprehensive authentication library for TypeScript</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41678652">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41678652</a> - Sept 2024 (44 comments)

How are people able to just spin up Google login using these libs? When I tried it doing it directly my site had to be reviewed multiple times by some Google rep and I had to change the privacy policy, not have any beta features etc etc. What am I missing? I find it really strange that I must fully launch my product before I can enable the most common login mechanic. It feels like a catch 22.

Looks interesting. I like that you can plug your own identity provider quiet easily. One nit: They should really rename their Node integration to Express integration because that’s what it is looking from examples (and that’s what people might commonly look for).

I&#x27;ve been hoping on some library to better simplify passkey auth, especially in &quot;serverless&quot; situations with KV DB like Deno Deploy&#x2F;Netlify&#x2F;et al. I&#x27;m sick of passwords and passkey should be all I need, but the high level libraries just don&#x27;t seem to exist in good enough forms yet and everyone keeps instead relying on overkill vendors like Auth0&#x2F;Okta.

Does anyone have experience with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lucia-auth.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lucia-auth.com</a> ? OP says that it&#x27;s deprecated, but it seems like it just changed from a library to a short guide on how to implement auth yourself.<p>I&#x27;m planning to migrate our authentication and session management from auth0 to this to save costs and make things simpler.

There are so many auth libraries on the roll nowadays. I am using firebase js and it is very simple and straightforward to use.<p>I&#x27;m not a security expert, so please advise any pitfalls that the new libraries address which cannot be done with firebase

I am currently self hosting former gotrue, now supabase auth and am having a hard time implementing oath and will probably try to switch to better auth. The docs look super comprehensive.

It says it&#x27;s better auth, but it&#x27;s actually the best auth library.

As someone developing with both Nuxt and Next, I find these &quot;full-stack&quot; JavaScript libraries and frameworks really confusing and difficult to grok. I understand the benefit of only having one ecosystem to worry about (JS&#x2F;TS in Node and browser) but I&#x27;m not convinced that having backend and frontend in the same codebase is actually a good idea. It might be due to being a more &quot;old school&quot; full stack developer, but this new wave of of SSR-led full-stack frameworks is tricky.

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