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Comment by bekacru

1. We won’t sunset Auth.js unless we’re confident that anyone currently using it can migrate to Better Auth without any issues, which is quite difficult right now. So we don’t expect to do that anytime soon and chances are we will never require everyone to migrate.

2. The features we offer through plugins don’t exist in NextAuth, so that shouldn’t be a problem. You can use the core library for almost all of NextAuth’s features, and we provide most plugins first-party. Of course, you can choose not to use a plugin, write your own, copy and modify one, or only use the first-party ones we provide. We handle the database so you can own your auth without writing the logic yourself.

3. Auth.js hasn’t been actively maintained for a while. Our main reason for bringing it under Better Auth was to avoid a sudden deprecation, as that would directly harm the open-source auth ecosystem by eroding trust. Something we’ve already seen happen on a smaller scale with Lucia Auth.

parent bekacru 1 year ago

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