How to setup Lucia auth in Next.js (in 8 minutes)

I feel like this video was a mess. hopefully you learned something. I'm going to make an example nextjs + lucia auth repo for people to clone now because these docs feel a bit chaotic.

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[savdevv]

The 8 min vids continue! Keep it up Cody, Your onto something good here!

[allenbythesea]

good stuff, currently auth is some of the most unnecessarily complex stuff in software dev. This goes back towards simplification.

[ItsLaxe]

had to figure out lucia auth (with oauth) a few weeks back. it was a pain with the docs but overall the code is pretty simple, glad i set it up instead of relying on another auth library

[heyjitendra]

Cody thanks for this. I will extend this and make it fully functional like a complete auth email verification, password reset, 2 factor auth, google auth, GitHub auth and will add rate limiting

[MasterEd]

Absolutely loved this video! It's short, concise, and straight to the point. Thanks for making such an informative piece so easy to understand. Great job Cody!

[justinoconnell]

Great video, I got it up and running. I looked at the lucia docs few weeks back and couldn't be bothered to figure it out myself at the time

[deepjyotideb]

Finally! Been waiting for this for A while.

[BreuXBranco]

You’ve been killing with these tuts my dude

[SeibertSwirl]

Nice! An 8 minute video?!?! Sheeeeshhh! Love ya

[shaked]

There is no shorter, better, more straight to the point, lucia auth implementation video than this.
Thanks

[nasko]

The 1 thing I don't like about Lucia is that it queries the DB every time you need to check for authentication. I guess that's not a Lucia issue, more of a DB Session issue, but if you're interracting with an api/trying to fetch data securely that's a lot of queries to make sure you get the data to the properly authenticated user every time.

[DamienUK]

Thank you for the videos. Currently going through the online auction app video and get stuck early on as apparently Next.js, drizzle/postgres and Auth.js don't get on well together with error messages like the one below appearing:

Module build failed: UnhandledSchemeError: Reading from "cloudflare:sockets" is not handled by plugins (Unhandled scheme).

Hopefully switching the auth to Lucia will help as had no problems before putting the auth in.

[northerncoder]

Any chance you could attempt to create a convex adapter for Lucia. So far I have been unable to do so.

[steiner]

Thank you! one question.. What is the advantage of Lucia vs Next-auth?

[joostschuur]

Are there any advantaged of Next Auth at this point? Other than momentum? Looks like, thanks to artic, Lucia also has a ton of auth providers it can use.

[PURPLECUT]

does lucia do csrf for you? doesn't seem like it

[ronny-andrebendiksen]

You should write that library specifically for Drizzle and Next.js!

[AbuBakr]

Please Can we use Lucia in nextjs Middleware?

[aizen_tv]

You're gonna pay me for these additional 19s blud

[nianight]

2:55 was very unfortunate cut. How did you fix that wrong type error?