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๐Ÿ” Top 3 Best Authentication Frameworks for 2025 ๐Ÿ—๏ธ๐Ÿงฐ

Martins Gouveia on December 13, 2024

1. Clerk ๐Ÿ—๏ธ Clerk helps developers build user management. Provide streamlined user experiences for your users to sign up, sign in, and m...
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Pierre Malorne

From my experience, Better Auth is the cleanest but requires more coding knowledge. But it's an acquired taste, some people don't enjoy TypeScript so much
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Pierre M., Oerlikon
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Martins Gouveia

Try Clerk. You will love.

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Mahmouud Khaled

What about nextAuth ??

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Martins Gouveia

Although NextAuth is very popular, it has recently lost ground to new frameworks. NextAuth presents a complex layer when it comes to implementing authentication. However, Clerk, for example, offers more authentication and user management options with a user-friendly dashboard.

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Chesterton

NextAuth.js is not easy to use, they made a new auth lib call Auth.js now

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OhadR

What about authentication flows? github.com/OhadR/authentication-fl...

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Martins Gouveia

Iโ€™ll check. Thanks for sharing.

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Mehdi Hafid • Edited

@martygo have you had a chance to look at Nidam ?

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Martins Gouveia

Of course. Iโ€™ll check.

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ร‡aฤŸan ลžen

better auth is killing it

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Shema Elisa

What about auth.js commonly known as Next auth

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Martins Gouveia

Although NextAuth is very popular, it has recently lost ground to new frameworks. NextAuth presents a complex layer when it comes to implementing authentication.

However, Clerk, for example, offers more authentication and user management options with a user-friendly dashboard.

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Zibran Shaikh

I am beginner & right now using JWT ( Json Web Token) so is it good ?

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Martins Gouveia

Of course. Is really good to know JWT. It is still a very common way of doing authentication.