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can Vercel give any assurance that they won’t add a reliance on their closed-source cloud offering for the package? especially given their ownership of next-auth too i really loved better-auth’s DX but the nature of their database adapters means it’s relatively easy to switch over to another provider/library
Ah, here we go again. Glad I decided to roll my own auth rather then using some library. I had a feeling that eventually they will join Vercel.
but to me that’s less risk than our auth getting bought by somebody whose business goals don’t necessarily align with mine.
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
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...
how is this related to better auth ? In my understanding, keycloak and better auth are fundamentally different. I would compare keycloak more with Ory for example.
Ah, here we go again. Glad I decided to roll my own auth rather then using some library. I had a feeling that eventually they will join Vercel.
Yeah, we rolled our own auth as well. Everybody says you shouldn’t, it’s a risk, etc etc. but to me that’s less risk than our auth getting bought by somebody whose business goals don’t necessarily align with mine.
With current AI your agents probably still will be better with maintaining a fork. Auth libs have pretty limited API surfaces comparing to e.g. ui frameworks.
Auth is not hard to roll yourself. Crypto: don't do it. Auth? Easy peasy.
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.
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...
how is this related to better auth ? In my understanding, keycloak and better auth are fundamentally different. I would compare keycloak more with Ory for example.
(some of those features are enterprise only)
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 so…
Auth is not hard to roll yourself. Crypto: don't do it. Auth? Easy peasy.