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Re:Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framewor... by gardnr on Monday May 19, 2025 @11:40AM (#44031010)
Most people will reach for BetterAuth when they would reach for NextAuth. Basically, when you want to integrate OIDC or SSO of some kind.

Back when I was looking at it a couple of months ago, the big thing that popped out was that BetterAuth supports email and password out of the box, where NextAuth seems to have a preachy disclaimer about how email and password is inherently insecure, so they leave you to your own devices to implement password hashing and the like.

That did give a sense that NextAuth was the first to dominate the space and feels as though they can dictate morals.

BetterAuth seems to be a bit more developer-focused.

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Re:Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framewor... by koakuma-chan on Monday May 19, 2025 @11:52AM (#44031128)
> where NextAuth seems to have a preachy disclaimer about how email and password is inherently insecure

Yeah I needed a login & password auth last friday and I was so frustrated with NextAuth I ended up using nginx to set up http basic auth.

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