feat: Better Auth

[koohz]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Although still in beta (like next-auth), another good auth package would be better-auth

Describe the solution you'd like to see

Better Auth

Describe alternate solutions

Better Auth

Additional information

No response

[aryanprince]

Any updates on this? Better Auth hit v1 a few months ago (on Nov 2023) and is such a good auth solution. Clears NextAuth/Auth.js imo and does everything better. Here are some things I can think of off the top of my head:

• Significantly better docs than NextAuth/Auth.js (Better Auth docs cover almost every edge case, unlike Auth.js v5 beta where I had to look up 3rd party guides to setup slightly more 'complex' features)
• Does all the basics
  • Email/password (this is not a 2nd class option on Better Auth)
  • Credentials-based auth with either email, username, or phone numbers
  • Magic Links
  • OTP (for both email and phone numbers)
  • OAuth
  • 2FA
  • Passkeys
• Lotta "advanced" stuff (built-in rate limiter, better RBAC, organizations, anonymous users, SSO and more)
• Supports Expo too (for create-t3-turbo users)
• Migration guide for existing NextAuth/Auth.js users here (can be included in the T3 docs for existing Auth.js users)

I'm only glazing on Better Auth this much because it'd be a good fit for create-t3-app cus it's also:

• OSS and self-hosted auth (just like Auth.js, unlike Clerk)
• Not a managed auth provider, that happens to let you self-host it (like Supabase Auth, SuperTokens, or Stack Auth)
• Not a low-level "roll-your-own-auth-on-your-own" solution like Lucia or iron-session (mentioned it since the maintainers didn't want to add Lucia to create-t3-app)

Would love to see this added in! If this is something the maintainers would be open to, I'd love to work on the PR to get this added in!

[c2b247]

I would like to see this also

[aidansunbury]

I would also be down to work on this

[CarlosZiegler]

Hey Hey here an fork from the guy that work on better-auth lib:
https://github.com/Bekacru/create-t3-turbo/tree/main

[michaltaberski]

Hey Hey here an fork from the guy that work on better-auth lib: https://github.com/Bekacru/create-t3-turbo/tree/main

Do you know how to run CLI generate app from the fork?

[gavgrego]

Want to second this. Would love to try T3 stack but been using better-auth lately and refuse to go back to authjs

[GermanJablo]

As another option to consider, there is also Stack Auth which looks promising.

[MuellerMarvin]

If someone is good with BetterAuth, why not contribute ? 😄

[CatStudioApp]

@MuellerMarvin kind notice: better-auth is far less mature than nextauth. don't waste the time : )

[MuellerMarvin]

@MuellerMarvin kind notice: better-auth is far less mature than nextauth. don't waste the time : )

I already transferred the entire T3 template to BetterAuth.

It's a blessing, NextAuth is kind of dead to me. 😅

[juliusmarminge]

Open to PRs adding this. Ping me on Discord when you have something up, sometimes my Github notifications gets overwhelmed and I don't check this project on a daily basis

[CatStudioApp]

@MuellerMarvin kind notice: better-auth is far less mature than nextauth. don't waste the time : )

I already transferred the entire T3 template to BetterAuth.

It's a blessing, NextAuth is kind of dead to me. 😅

saying this just to save your time in production. you're welcome.