Ask HN: Why Do JavaScript Devs Struggle to Find a Solid Auth Solution?

Other ecosystems solved auth years ago. Frameworks like Laravel, Rails, Django.Developers there just build and ship products.

Meanwhile, in JavaScript land, we’re stuck gluing together 1,000 npm packages and 1,000 paid external services. I don’t see this level of chaos in other languages.

It feels like VC money loves the JS ecosystem because it creates endless gaps to monetize. Auth is the best example, instead of one solid, free solution, we get a dozen half-solutions.

Don’t tell me better-auth or authjs, nothing is truly free. The authors behind those libs need to get paid eventually, either through sponsorship or by releasing a commercial version