Better Auth
The most comprehensive authentication library for TypeScript
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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
- 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
- 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. You are free to do whatever you want with it.
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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.