It’s not that auth is unsolved in other languages/frameworks, but it’s often way too complex or configuration-heavy. If adding passkey support to my app is going to take 2 hours, that’s two hours I’m spending away from building my core product. For smaller projects, that’s not time that I could afford.

For example, if I want to add passkeys to my .NET CORE app, this is the guide Microsoft provides:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/authe...

Contrast that to better-auth (which is 7 lines of code total in server changes, and virtually no change to client API usage):

https://www.better-auth.com/docs/plugins/passkey

For some projects, the flexibility of other solutions might be needed. But for ease-of-use and development speed, better-auth has been a clear winner for me.

Excuse me, incoming contrarian! learn.microsoft, is for learning about the concepts as well as the practical applications. Also for user facing security, wouldn't you want all the knowledge available to you? Much easier to find the foot guns in these kinds of situations.

It’s Microsoft. Did you expect less than 30 pages of useless techno-babble?

This framework has made auth such a non-issue for me. The setup is easy and the usage is consistent framework to framework. So glad to see that they’re continuing to do well.

A few months ago, I found a security vulnerability for better-auth. Within 24 hours of reporting the vulnerability to the team, it was patched, a notice had been posted, and I had been credited with a CVE. THAT is how you do it, folks!

This team is top notch. The community leadership, responsiveness, and development speed has been incredible. The project itself is also great--this library is so much more flexible than others and requires much less effort to wrap my brain around. I'm so happy that this library is getting the recognition it deserves.