9 alternatives to next-auth
nextauthjs/next-auth — Authentication for the Web. (28,369 stars, ISC, auth, ui, database).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 248 licence-cleared components from nextauthjs/next-auth itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | better-auth/better-auth | 6.7 | MIT | 30,431 |
| 2 | heartcombo/devise | 7.9 | MIT | 24,356 |
| 3 | oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy | 7.9 | MIT | 15,270 |
| 4 | goauthentik/authentik | 4.8 | MIT | 26,087 |
| 5 | logto-io/logto | 4.2 | MPL-2.0 | 14,784 |
| 6 | auth0-developer-hub/auth0-b2b-saas-starter | 7.6 | MIT | 206 |
| 7 | rekey-dev/rekey | 5.3 | MIT | 11 |
| 8 | ocluf/justship | 4.3 | MIT | 636 |
| 9 | hoangsonww/threadline-realtime-collab | 4.0 | MIT | 12 |
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