better-auth-best-practices

Set up Better Auth by mapping ORM adapter modelNames correctly, choosing stateless or database-backed session storage, and defining required environment variables to establish secure authentication workflows.

Your Better Auth setup likely fails because you need to run the CLI migrate or generate command after making plugin configuration changes to ensure the database schema matches your updated auth setup.

You need to set BETTER_AUTH_SECRET and BETTER_AUTH_URL environment variables for Better Auth to handle secrets and routing correctly across your web application authentication endpoints.

Verify your Better Auth configuration by running the CLI migrate command and checking the GET /api/auth/ok health check endpoint, which should return a status of ok if the setup is valid.

Yes, Better Auth supports configuring both email/password authentication and OAuth providers, allowing you to safely wire endpoints, apply security guardrails, and manage session expiration and refresh behavior.

The best way to manage session cookies in Better Auth is to configure cookie cache modes and define session expiration and refresh behavior based on your stateless or database-backed session strategy.