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Re:Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framewor... by theogravity on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @12:52AM (#44037921)
As another asked, "why?" on no JWT? It makes interfacing with our API servers so much easier as we don't need to maintain infra for sessions and wouldn't be limited by the 4kb limit for sending cookies.
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Re:Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framewor... by doshaa on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @04:26AM (#44039148)
I use better auth for a real app

There is a plugin provided by better auth for jwt https://www.better-auth.com/docs/plugins/jwt

We dont need it since everything is a single "server" and cookies are good enough. JWT would be added complexity ( e.g sign out ) that i find it better to not be set as a default.

bonus reading http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/06/19/stop-using-jwt-fo...

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