[troad]

Yeah, but Lucia is just going to be immediately replaced with some other popular auth library.

The thing is, 99% of people really do just need 'log in / log out', and this is an incredibly useful thing to have as a library.

If you need Web 8.0 passkeys served via WASM eliptic curve sockets or whatever, sure, roll your own or use Auth0. But it feels really silly for the consensus around auth to be 'oh, you're making a CRUD cooking app to share your love of baking? cool, well here's the OAuth spec and a list of footguns, go roll some auth'. It's not a good use of that person's time - they should be focussed on their actual idea rather than being forced to reinvent plumbing - and tons of people are going to get it wrong and end up with effectively no auth at all.

[yard2010]

Haha I've been working on my cooking app[0] (not ready yet, join the waiting list!), and for the last 1 month I've been implementing auth with AuthKit (bad experience IMHO, should have just self host SuperTokens in hindsight), experiencing what you described here 1:1

[0] https://prepbook.app

[grinich]

Hey, I’m the founder of WorkOS (which makes AuthKit).

Would love to learn where we missed on the developer experience. Can you email me? [e-mail]

We have hundreds of happy customers using AuthKit including high-demand apps like Cursor. Lots more features coming too.