Neon, an underrated gem

I've been using Supabase as my main BaaS for all my projects for the past couple years, and it has nothing wrong with it, it's opensource, I can self host it, I can do what ever I want, but can I.. ?

I needed auth I could actually control

See, for me I was in need for some extended auth support, an authentication provider that I can control, and my eyes dropped on Better Auth, a really good opensource authentication system that works seemlessly with your typescript apps, so I've tried it and I can't help but get amazed by how beautiful it gets, you have ful control over every little piece in it, and I thought to my self that I've found the authentication system I was looking for, until I realized it will be so much harder than said...

The week I lost wiring Better Auth + Supabase

When I took the decision that I must migrate my authentication into Better Auth, and started searching the internet for some docs on how to hook it up with Supabase, I couldn't find much, and hey, it might have been a skill issue, but it took me around a week to fully hook up Supabase with Better Auth, and boy wasn't it a pain in the ass..

It worked — but I regretted it a little

It did work fine, but the hassle that I've went through made me regret my decision to some point, and I was stuck on gotrue auth system in the rest of my side projects (it was ok though, I have 8 users on these side projects, one is me, one is my friend who I somehow convinced to sign up and he never used the app again, and the other 6 are test accounts on prod cuz why not)

Then I tried Neon

A couple weeks ago I tried building up a project using Neon because I got a comment from Dominik saying he is using Neon for his projects, so I said sure, why not try, and I sure didn't regret it

Why it clicked immediately

Neon comes with Better Auth as the default authentication system, thats a big win for me, add to that that it offers serverless functions and even AI features (I didn't use them but I'm sure I might use them one day) and that was perfect for me, and probably for you too..

Maybe I should hype branching more

I did focus a lot on the authentication system here although it isn't what Neon is popular about, maybe I should've added some more focus on their beautiful branching system, but hey, that what impressed me, having my favorite authentication provider in-place for me is dope!