Better Auth, a TypeScript authentication library, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC

Re:Better Auth, a TypeScript authentication library, raises ... by figassis on Thursday June 26, 2025 @02:25AM (#44384697)

This is a market created by the supabases and it’s no code cousins. I frankly always considered auth so simple and fundamental, with best practices so well known that I never saw the need to use a SaaS for user auth. I guess if you want to offer all the auth methods that this library is useful and saves a lot of time.

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Re:Better Auth, a TypeScript authentication library, raises ... by shreezus on Thursday June 26, 2025 @03:02AM (#44384925)

As someone who has been at a company where for various reasons, we decided to "roll our own auth", I would have to disagree here. Don't reinvent the wheel if you can avoid doing so.

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Re:Better Auth, a TypeScript authentication library, raises ... by jtms on Friday June 27, 2025 @01:14PM (#44398510)

I would never suggest "roll your own", but every web framework I have ever used generally has a library that is the go to battle tested auth implementation and just requires adding a few columns and/or tables to your database.

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Re:Better Auth, a TypeScript authentication library, raises ... by sc0rpil on Thursday June 26, 2025 @02:47AM (#44384829)

Absolutely wild take. Auth is most definitely not simple, nor are best practices well known, based on number of auth-related vulnerabilities published.

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Re:Better Auth, a TypeScript authentication library, raises ... by TheCapeGreek on Thursday June 26, 2025 @11:34AM (#44388407)

I guess everyone outside of the JS ecosystem, that has auth baked into the framework for decades, is just doing it wrong and riddled with hackers in their systems?

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Re:Better Auth, a TypeScript authentication library, raises ... by simultsop on Thursday June 26, 2025 @02:45AM (#44384810)

You mean that for toying, personal use or hobby projects, right? Otherwise people get jaw drops or facepalms.

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