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> **Note:** 🚧 This project is currently in beta. Features and APIs may change.
## About the Project
### Why Better Auth?
> Auth feels like a partially solved problem in the ecosystem. Existing open-source libraries often require a lot of additional code for anything beyond a simple login. Third-party services, while convenient, comes with their own set of problems. And obviously, these services aren't free and can get really expensive.
> Better auth is born out of these frustrations. It aims to provides a comprehensive authentication library from the core accompanied by a growings plugin ecosystem, that allows you to add many auth related features in short amount of time.
### Goals
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- **Be Comprehensive**: Save users from reinventing the wheel for anything related auth.
- **Prioritize Best Practices**: provide best practices rather than overwhelming configuration options.
- **Framework Agnostic**: Support most frameworks and avoid framework specific features and solutions if possible.
- **Consistency**: Provide a consistent and predictable API across all platforms
- **Type Safety**: Value type-safety and embrace typescript magic when necessary.
### Non-Goals
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- **JWT-Based Authentication**: We won’t support JWT-based auth unless provided by a third-party plugin.
- **Support for Non-Relational Databases**: No plans to support MongoDB or other non-relational databases.
- **Deep Customization**: Our focus is on delivering opinionated, best-practice defaults, rather than enabling deep customization.
- **Frontend UI Components**: We don’t provide frontend UI components. However, feel free to use our examples for quick UI integration.
> Some of these non-goals might change after we hit v1
## Contribution
Better Auth is free and open source project licensed under the [MIT License](./LICENSE.md). You are free to do whatever you want with it.
You could help continuing its development by:
- [Contribute to the source code](./CONTRIBUTING.md)
- [Suggest new features and report issues](https://github.com/better-auth/better-auth/issues)
## Security
If you discover a security vulnerability within Better AUth, please send an e-mail to support at better-auth.com.
All reports will be promptly addressed, and you'll be credited accordingly.
