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#72Better Auth has raised $5M. I don’t think it’s great to see a truly free project get absorbed into a commercial venture.
Fair concern but I don’t think Auth.js was ever “truly free,” considering it was supported by many companies (big or small) including someone like Clerk even running ads on the docs site.
We started Better Auth with the vision of making high-quality auth (with simple abstractions, great docs, extensive set of features...) and make it accessible to everyone . It didn’t start as a commercial venture, at first it was a purely oss project I created. The reason it evolved into a commercial venture is that we saw new ways to make owning your auth even more accessible and scalable for companies.
The reason we’re bringing Auth.js under Better Auth is that the Auth.js team is moving on, and we don’t want the project to be abandoned, that would hurt trust in open-source auth as a whole. We’ve already seen that happen at smaller scaller with Lucia. If that weren’t the case, we’d actually benefit from Auth.js being deprecated, since we’re effectively the next most people would go for and we wouldn't have to take this risk and responsibilities.
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#74> Chances are, if you’ve used ChatGPT, Google Labs, Cal.com or a million other websites, you’ve already interacted with Auth.js. I missed OpenAI migrating away from auth0. They must have been one of their largest customers - anybody know the story?
I’ve seen a lot of talk about Auth0 but I want to put a callout to get a check on how folks feel about AWS cognito. I am Cognito vs Auth0 and I’d love to hear some real world experiences
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#76I really wish there was such an easy off-the shelf auth solution for Go
https://github.com/authelia/authelia ?
I've seen this, and the fact that it's written in Go is kind of irrelevant if I have to manage an external service. I just want it to be simple like what other languages have.
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Auth.js: Vercel hired the lead dev and it stopped improving, leading to better-auth
Isn’t Vercel’s CEO an investor of Clerk? A direct competitor to all these FOSS auth libraries.
Yes, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45393382
Now better-auth had raised $5M so they can't undercut Clerky by too much or they'll fail
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#79Please add support for Swift!
Now, this response was "not on my bingo card" as the youths say. I find it surprising that Swift would come up on a discussion about JavaScript auth libraries. Can you tell us more about what you are looking for?
Sorry it was a bit off-topic (not related to Auth.js).
I'm specifically asking about Better-Auth, as I'd love to use it in an iOS app but the client library is all JS. I'd even consider writing my own client library, but there is virtually no documentation on how to do so.
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#80With Auth.js, I assume they control the database layer? I.e. can i supply my own functions for reading and writing to the DB, or I have to use their Kysely stuff?