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Cloudflare + React Router v7 and Better Auth

It seems there is no clear answer on how to actually use Better Auth with Cloudflare D1. As a beginner, I have searched high and low for what is seemingly an impossible answer.

1. The problem starts with Better Auth: Better Auth does not support Cloudflare D1 out of the box
2. Third-party packages are required: Both Kysely and Kysely-D1 are needed to do something with Better Auth and unfortunatly the documentation is non-existent as to how Kysley talks to Cloudflare D1 and Better Auth or why these third-party packages are required
3. Lack of a clear way forward: I have found several resources and claim "Better Auth + Cloudflare D1, just add water" however when reviewing the project setups every Better Auth and Kysely conguration is different

What I'm trying to achieve is simply add Better Auth into a React Router v7 project with the default e-mail/password authentication so I can protect routes.

From the Better Auth documentation I am able to only get to step 3 (https://www.better-auth.com/docs/installation)

• npm install better-auth
• created .dev.vars in project root; add the variables (generate secret key, url is http://localhost:5173)
• created auth.ts in app/utils

Step 4 is to configure the database. There is basically no clear way forward here.

• Further reading leads me to the other supported databases pages, https://www.better-auth.com/docs/adapters/other-relational-databases
• "Better Auth supports a wide range of database dialects out of the box thanks to Kysely." - but as a beginner, I have no idea what this actually means
• Under *Kysely Community dialects* I see "Cloudflare D1", https://github.com/aidenwallis/kysely-d1
• https://github.com/aidenwallis/kysely-d1 has only 1 instruction, "npm i kysely-d1" but no other context for where to put that code that's in the readme.md file. Replace auth.ts?

Does anybody have a clear way to connect Better Auth with Cloudflare D1 that does not involve other packages like Hono or Drizzle?

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GitHub - aidenwallis/kysely-d1: D1 dialect for Kysely

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