nextauthjs

    nextauthjs/next-auth

    Authentication for the Web.

    28.4K stars
    4.0K forks
    112 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 9, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 112 days ago, with 454 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #59 in the weekly ranking the week of Sep 28, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides flexible authentication solutions for web applications supporting OAuth, OIDC, email/passwordless, and passkeys.
    • Enables secure, runtime-agnostic authentication with full control over user data and seamless integration with many databases.
    • Use for implementing type-safe, customizable authentication in Next.js or other JavaScript frameworks.
    • Use for building passwordless sign-in flows with enhanced security features like CSRF protection and encrypted JWTs.
    • Use for integrating authentication in serverless or containerized environments with support for various OAuth providers.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    ISC

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    Auth.js Authentication for the Web. Open Source. Full Stack. Own Your Data.

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    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    4.0K-17

    Open issues

    605+11

    Compared with peers in Authentication

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