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Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framework for TypeScript

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Re: Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framework for TypeScript

#61
Congrats on the launch! Better Auth has a level of universal love from developers that's really seen.

Just one suggestion - remove the F-bombs from the testimonials on your homepage. There are various firewall intel providers that will put you on the bad lists because of this. You usually learn this the hard way :/

Re: Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framework for TypeScript

#62
post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- Not right now, but there’s already an open issue and a PR in progress. - We don’t use JWTs directly, and sessions always require state (it’s not stateless). And yeah, both the client and server handles automatic session refresh. - Yes, we support both multiple sessions or having different organizations open in different tab: https://www.better-auth.com/docs/plugins/multi-session - Yes, that’s possible, you just nee…

> We don’t use JWTs directly Why?

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Re: Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framework for TypeScript

#64
I'm super happy that this is getting funding and won't become vaporeware at least for another season, because it's super important to have a stable foundation for homebrew solutions.

However I'm not entierly sold on this being an actual alternative to auth0 and such - at least for now. For a drop-in solution lack of mail and dashboard can be a real deal breaker.

Re: Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framework for TypeScript

#65
Is there support for dynamic sign in provider urls? One of the deal breakers (in addition to federated sign in/sign out being a pain) for us with next-auth was that we have certain customers whose security requirements include pointing subdomains that they own at our servers. So we would need to be able to use some logic to determine where the sign-in redirect should take a given user.

Re: Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framework for TypeScript

#66
i have been your user since the early days, I want to say congrats you guys, I have been recommending your framework to everyone. I appreciate the responsive support you gave me on discord (though in the end, my questions are already on the docs lol)

Re: Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framework for TypeScript

#67
post #61

Congrats on the launch! Better Auth has a level of universal love from developers that's really seen. Just one suggestion - remove the F-bombs from the testimonials on your homepage. There are various firewall intel providers that will put you on the bad lists because of this. You usually learn this the hard way :/

Thanks for the kind note! And good suggestion. I was meaning to update that for a while.

Re: Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framework for TypeScript

#68
One of our devs evaluated you guys and loved it and I do too, but you guys don’t have SCIM support which makes it really hard for us to justify moving to. We moved to an arguably inferior product because telling our product team “you’ll get scim” as part of an auth overhaul is an easier conversation. If you want enterprise customers, I’d recommend nailing down your enterprise feature set~ but the good news is that our devs liked your model the most so it’s just a matter of work for you guys to expand your functionality!

Re: Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framework for TypeScript

#70
post #65

Is there support for dynamic sign in provider urls? One of the deal breakers (in addition to federated sign in/sign out being a pain) for us with next-auth was that we have certain customers whose security requirements include pointing subdomains that they own at our servers. So we would need to be able to use some logic to determine where the sign-in redirect should take a given user.

Yes. You should check the SSO plugin which would allow you to store the config in your db and can retrieve it dynamically.
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