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Discussion summary

Better Auth is joining Vercel amid mixed opinions. Some users criticize its codebase, while others suggest building custom auth solutions or using third-party libraries.

What the discussion says

  • Some users find Better Auth's codebase problematic.
  • Others believe auth can be easily rolled or managed with libraries.
  • Concerns about security and complexity in building auth solutions.
“Better auth is an absolute dumpster fire codebase.”
— huflungdung
“Auth is not hard to roll yourself. Crypto: don't do it. Auth? Easy peasy.”
— whalesalad

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  • Is rauch planning to control Open source, why are we seeing more acquisitions. Also Is this the time they officially announce the death of Auth.js?
    by Tomy9
  • So, it's just a matter of time until they destroy this project in favour of their cloud interests. Such a shame, it is (was) a nice open source project.
    by mariopt
  • Reminder - KeyCloak was donated to CNCF so a safe choice

    https://www.keycloak.org

    https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/04/11/keycloak-joins-cncf-as-a...

    by khurs
  • I used Better Auth for my mobile app backend. It works okayish. My biggest complaints are the OpenAPI specification gets little care, as it mainly caters for JS frontend, and breaking changes in patch version are more common than most packages.
    by magnio
  • Bereket Here

    the team at Vercel has been my biggest inspiration and always reflected many of the reasons we started working on Better Auth. This would allow us to focus more on what made better-auth great in the first place It hasn't even been 2 years since we started but thank you everyone from the open-source community for helping us make an impact in short amount of time. There is a lot to do to improve on open source auth and im really excited to be back focusing full time on building

    by bekacru
  • Bummed. Vercel is not a great steward of open source. Happy that Bereket got an exit, though.
    by jgeurts
  • Congrats BetterAuth! It was the system I was considering before I rolled my own auth system around the passwordless concepts of: OTP + Passkeys + Google login. It is quite nice and simple and I've ported it to 3 separate projects now just via LLM:

    Talk: https://ben3d.ca/blog/passwordless-login-system

    Live Demo: https://passwordless.ben3d.ca

    Demo Code: https://github.com/bhouston/passwordless

    If you are building a user system with a database already, adding passwordless auth is easy.

    by bhouston
  • Open source isn't really open any more. It's just pre-acquisition. I'm happy to the creators for their payday but honestly just happy I opted out of BetterAuth building my latest product.
    by nightski

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