Better Auth is joining Vercel (better-auth.com)

I nearly considered using them recently. So glad I dodged the bullet!

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

I was wondering when that would happen, it was meant to be since the beginning

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...

Love better-auth, and congrats to the team!

Congrats to Better Auth. I'm in the auth space and see all kinds of things.

Anything that makes it easier for developers to build secure applications is a win!

Better auth is an absolute dumpster fire codebase.

Auth is not hard to roll yourself. Crypto: don't do it. Auth? Easy peasy.

Uggggg I just implemented Better Auth for our new product - time to start looking for backup plans. I used to be a huge Vercel fanboy but everything they have done in the last few years turns into a complicated mess.

This is amazing although I would really like for them to explore filling the backend gaps. An acquisition of Trigger.dev or Inngest would be the obvious move and nobody would be surprised. Thoughts?

I used Better Auth for my mobile app backend. It works okayish. My biggest complaints are the OpenAPI specification gets little care, as it mainly caters for JS frontend, and breaking changes in patch version are more common than most packages.

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.

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 source auth and im really excited to be back focusing full time on building

Congrats BetterAuth! It was the system I was considering before I rolled my own auth system around the passwordless concepts of: OTP + Passkeys + Google login. It is quite nice and simple and I've ported it to 3 separate projects now just via LLM:

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.

im amused that people are still relying on third party for handling auth when you can roll your own now with LLMs

Better Auth is great, I use it for all my projects. Congrats to the team!

So, it's just a matter of time until they destroy this project in favour of their cloud interests. Such a shame, it is (was) a nice open source project.

Bummed. Vercel is not a great steward of open source. Happy that Bereket got an exit, though.

Keycloak is excellent.

Congrats! Better auth still provides a grade A dev experience, even with all the plugins, integrations, and tons of things they support.

Best of luck over there!

Open source isn't really open any more. It's just pre-acquisition. I'm happy to the creators for their payday but honestly just happy I opted out of BetterAuth building my latest product.

Hmmm so Convex support is going to take even more of a backseat I guess

so does anything change or will change for better-auth FOSS consumers? Or not really and that mostly depends on what Vercel imposes as new direction going forward? I guess vercel is a good home for foss projects, at worst they'll make first class adoption on their ecosystem without actively hampering others etc

Sucks. Now I have to look for alternatives.

Worse Auth