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It feels wrong in 2025 that Passkey support isn't up-front and first class and is relegated to a plugin.
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Hey I just converted my 0-user project from Lucia to Better Auth, and I had a few notes. Better Auth is great - it just works, but there were a few quirks I had to face, like how it handles everything for you using the auth client instead of giving you helper functions to use to handle login/register requests and make it customizable on the server side The migration was very easy, since I had no users to worry about,…
Thanks for sharing, you've successfully tipped the Better Auth scales for me... Might be too early to tell, but would you say you prefer Lucia or Better Auth at this point? I really like Lucia because of how little magic there is and how I can understand/control everything related to auth. But I wonder if it loses its luster as a project grows.
Interested to see how the functionality progresses!
Congrats on getting into YC!
Heavily evaluated better-auth when implementing auth at my current company. Ended up with keycloak because of SAML SSO.
One thing I remember having some issues with was customising schemas with the drizzle adapter. Looks like you've cleared up the documentation more now. I think at the time I was confused as to wether custom schemas were specified in the drizzle adapter options, or inside the the organization plugin.
Basically mixing up these two: https://www.better-auth.com/docs/plugins/organization#custom... https://www.better-auth.com/docs/adapters/drizzle#additional...
Thanks for all your work, it is a really cool library!
It feels wrong in 2025 that Passkey support isn't up-front and first class and is relegated to a plugin.
Not many people are implementing passkeys yet, and we don’t want to force that on users. Also, the plugins we provide are still tightly integrated with the framework, you don’t even need to install a separate package, just import them.
Also, there's a huge gap between "we don't want to force that on users" and "we don't advertise it in our top-level marketing site at all". I can't be the only HN reader that is evaluating all libraries like this for Passkey support. It took me four or five clicks to even realize this library even supported Passkeys at all. If I wasn't curious about other Plugins I probably would have dismissed this entire library as outdated for lacking even basic Passkey support.
Congratulations on the launch! Heavily evaluated better-auth when implementing auth at my current company. Ended up with keycloak because of SAML SSO. One thing I remember having some issues with was customising schemas with the drizzle adapter. Looks like you've cleared up the documentation more now. I think at the time I was confused as to wether custom schemas were specified in the drizzle adapter options, or insi…
btw i read about your project in x a while ago, nice project!
I’ve never implemented auth before, and was always thinking that it will take me days to get it right.
I’ve done the whole thing in maybe 3 hours.