VIvivzkestrel·Jun 26, 2025
no lucia author has himself said that he s deprecating this https://github.com/lucia-auth/lucia/discussions/1707
In Better Auth, by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YClucia-auth
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Authentication, simple and clean
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12 sourceslucia is deprecated https://github.com/lucia-auth/lucia/discussions/1707
In Better Auth, by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YCLucia is deprecated https://github.com/lucia-auth/lucia/discussions/1707 so yea i ll jump if I were you
In Launch HN: Better Auth (YC X25) – Authentication Framework for TypeScriptLucia Auth: I am planning to deprecate the library early next year
1 points · Open discussionThere is a Github Discussion where he goes into more detail. He also talks about it on his twitter:
https://github.com/lucia-auth/lucia/discussions/1707
https://x.com/pilcrowonpaper/status/1843258855280742481
In The Copenhagen Book: general guideline on implementing auth in web applications> he no longer feels that the Lucia library is an ergonomic way of implementing auth
has he written up why? lots to learn here
edit: oh: https://github.com/lucia-auth/lucia/discussions/1707
this is great. he saw the coming complexity explosion, that the library was no longer useful to him personally, and took the humble route to opt out of the Standard Model of library slop development. rare.
In The Copenhagen Book: general guideline on implementing auth in web applicationsIf I'm not mistaken, this is written by the author of Lucia, a popular auth library for TypeScript [0]. He recently announced that he will be deprecating the library and be replacing it with a series of written guides [1], as he no longer feels that the Lucia library is an ergonomic way of implementing auth. He posted an early preview of the written guide [2] which I found enjoyable to read and complements The Copenhagen Book nicely.
[0] https://github.com/lucia-auth/lucia
[1] https://github.com/lucia-auth/lucia/discussions/1707
[2] https://lucia-next.pages.dev/
In The Copenhagen Book: general guideline on implementing auth in web applicationsLucia auth is being deprecated
2 points · Open discussionLucia to Be Deprecated in 2025
3 points · Open discussionLucia: Authentication, Simple and Clean
2 points · Open discussionAs you might know not one tool fits all, I still have strong preferences for the following. It helps me get going faster and get things done right first time and helps in ease of maintenance.
Language: Typescript.
Frontend Framework: Astrojs [1] or qwik [2]
Frontend Library: React if it requires 3d and other frame-motion like animations, else will not use any frontend library or might throw solidjs if required for some state etc.
Backend: Cloudflare functions, google functions
Auth: Lucia-Auth [3] if required
IDE: VS code with neovim , once deployed to git, I might some time use code-spaces
CSS: DaisyUI [4] with tailwind or Bulma
CSS Library: TailwindUI [5] makes most of the components ready to use and comes from the makers
CMS: Astro content collections or Sanity [6]
Deployment: Cloudflare (Highly preferred) or linode/digitalocean/netlif
Read the rest
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Database: turso [7] or neon postgres [8] with (drizzle orm) or cloudflare durable objects
1. https://github.com/withastro/astro
2. https://github.com/BuilderIO/qwik
3. https://github.com/lucia-auth/lucia
4. https://github.com/saadeghi/daisyui
5. https://tailwindui.com/
6. https://www.sanity.io/
7. https://turso.tech/
8. https://neon.tech/
Also huge fan of firebase and their emulators and whole eco-system.
Lucia: Auth library in TypeScript to manage the complexity of handling sessions
2 points · Open discussion