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I think for my next project I'll be trying out using Laravel's prebuilt user auth/login system, then building the business APIs in Node+TS (interfacing with the same relational DB). Developing not-so-dynamic webpages is just quicker in Laravel/Rails/Adonis, and reusing a prebuilt auth system across small projects just seems logical.

There's a bit more coordination involved in this approach, but there's sufficient separation of auth logic from other logic to allow it to work efficiently. Might run into issues with performing auth-related tasks (like invalidate session) on the Node API side, but I think they won't be too difficult to work out.