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> **Note:** 🚧 This project is currently in beta. Features and APIs may change.
## About the Project
Better Auth is framework-agnostic authentication (and authorization) library for TypeScript. It provides a comprehensive set of features out of the box and includes a plugin ecosystem that simplifies adding advanced functionalities with minimal code in short amount of time. Whether you need 2FA, multi-tenant support, or other complex features. It lets you focus on building your actual application instead of reinventing the wheel.
### Why Better Auth
Authentication in the TypeScript ecosystem is a half-solved problem. Other open-source libraries often requires a lot of additional code for anything beyond basic authentication. Rather than just pushing third-party services as the solution, I believe we can do better as a community—hence, Better Auth.
### Goals
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- **Be Comprehensive**: save users from reinventing the wheel as much as possible.
- **Prioritize Best Practices**: provide best practices rather than overwhelming configuration options.
- **Framework Agnostic**: Support most frameworks and avoid framework specific features and solutions if possible.
- **Consistency**: Provide a consistent and predictable API across all platforms
- **Type Safety**: Value type-safety and embrace typescript magic when necessary.
### Non-Goals
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- **JWT-Based Authentication**: We won’t support JWT-based auth unless provided by a third-party plugin.
- **Extensive Customization**: Our focus is on giving you opinionated, best-practice defaults, rather than enabling deep customization.
## Contribution
Better Auth is free and open source project licensed under the [MIT License](./LICENSE.md). You are free to do whatever you want with it.
You could help continuing its development by:
- [Contribute to the source code](./CONTRIBUTING.md)
- [Suggest new features and report issues](https://github.com/better-auth/better-auth/issues)
## Security
If you discover a security vulnerability within Better Auth, please send an e-mail to security@better-auth.com.
All reports will be promptly addressed, and you'll be credited accordingly.
