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•Created by Kevin on 4/30/2025 in #help

Help Understanding Better-auth

In this case unless you use a context or some other state that tells the components to refetch on client side, yes using authClient is not suitable for that. Using interchangeably however for first populating on server, and then refetching on client is what I do mostly

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•Created by Kevin on 4/30/2025 in #help

Help Understanding Better-auth

If you were to update your clients company using a server action and the api object, your ui also wouldn't refresh unless you trigger a rerender of the page

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•Created by Kevin on 4/30/2025 in #help

Help Understanding Better-auth

You are free to use them how you like, one can be executed on the client, one on the server

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•Created by Kevin on 4/30/2025 in #help

Help Understanding Better-auth

I mean that is just a typical issue of getting data on inital load vs. refreshing it on the client

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•Created by deved9036 on 4/30/2025 in #help

useSession query behaviour?

Btw you can set this as "Solved" so people can more easily find it

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•Created by deved9036 on 4/30/2025 in #help

useSession query behaviour?

This library is lowkey really awesome, but sometimes you really need to dig through the docs at points you would not expect initially :D

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•Created by deved9036 on 4/30/2025 in #help

useSession query behaviour?

Love to hear it :D

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•Created by deved9036 on 4/30/2025 in #help

useSession query behaviour?

sadge

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•Created by deved9036 on 4/30/2025 in #help

useSession query behaviour?

I use them myself, but didn't test whether useSession returns them, I didn't need them for that sake

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•Created by deved9036 on 4/30/2025 in #help

useSession query behaviour?

https://www.better-auth.com/docs/reference/options Have you tried the additionalFields in the betterAuth config ?

import { betterAuth } from "better-auth";
export const auth = betterAuth({
    user: {
        modelName: "users",
        fields: {
            email: "emailAddress",
            name: "fullName"
        },
        additionalFields: {
            customField: {
                type: "string",
                nullable: true
            }
        },
        changeEmail: {
            enabled: true,
            sendChangeEmailVerification: async ({ user, newEmail, url, token }) => {
                // Send change email verification
            }
        },
        deleteUser: {
            enabled: true,
            sendDeleteAccountVerification: async ({ user, url, token }) => {
                // Send delete account verification
            },
            beforeDelete: async (user) => {
                // Perform actions before user deletion
            },
            afterDelete: async (user) => {
                // Perform cleanup after user deletion
            }
        }
    },
})

import { betterAuth } from "better-auth";
export const auth = betterAuth({
    user: {
        modelName: "users",
        fields: {
            email: "emailAddress",
            name: "fullName"
        },
        additionalFields: {
            customField: {
                type: "string",
                nullable: true
            }
        },
        changeEmail: {
            enabled: true,
            sendChangeEmailVerification: async ({ user, newEmail, url, token }) => {
                // Send change email verification
            }
        },
        deleteUser: {
            enabled: true,
            sendDeleteAccountVerification: async ({ user, url, token }) => {
                // Send delete account verification
            },
            beforeDelete: async (user) => {
                // Perform actions before user deletion
            },
            afterDelete: async (user) => {
                // Perform cleanup after user deletion
            }
        }
    },
})

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•Created by Kevin on 4/30/2025 in #help

Help Understanding Better-auth

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•Created by Kevin on 4/30/2025 in #help

Help Understanding Better-auth

As far as I am concerned you should use auth.api on the server, and authClient on the client (as the names suggest). Most api functions provide a way to identify things you deal with. So If you have a more complex operation that should be kind of "atomic", you can define a server action that executes the functions usign the provided api instance by specifically identifying the subjects/objects you interact with (I havent used organization plugin myself but I assume there is a way to provide the identification using the body paramters) When you are on the client and want to do simple operations arleady directly supported by the plugin, which are already "atomic", you can directly invoke the functions of the authClient on the client side, which then in turn sends a request to your API routes defined through better-auth. So in short: Server -> API Client -> AuthClient (At least this is how I understood it whilst using better-auth so far, but I may be mistaken) https://www.better-auth.com/docs/concepts/api https://www.better-auth.com/docs/concepts/client

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•Created by Soheel on 4/28/2025 in #help

Enabling OTP-Email 2FA Automatically on User Signup

I managed to work around it by creating the 2FA Entries in the DB by myself by copying the implementation from the better-auth Github. This however is not a pretty solution as it would break in case better-auth changes something on their end as I cannot access the functions needed from better-auth/crypto directly through imports. In case someone has a better idea I would love to hear it!

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•Created by Jïns on 4/26/2025 in #help

Unable to check permisions

Worth going through the Concepts pages

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•Created by Jïns on 4/26/2025 in #help

Unable to check permisions

https://www.better-auth.com/docs/concepts/client

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•Created by Jïns on 4/26/2025 in #help

Unable to check permisions

https://www.better-auth.com/docs/concepts/api

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•Created by Jïns on 4/26/2025 in #help

Unable to check permisions

@Jïns You cannot use the authClient on the Server, the AuthClient basically calls your backend fromt he client side. If you are on the Server you need to get the Session and use the api.userHasPermission function:

import { auth } from '@/auth';
import { headers } from 'next/headers';

const session = await auth.api.getSession({headers: await headers(),});

const { success: isAuthorized } = await auth.api.userHasPermission({
   body: {
     userId: session.user.id,
       permission: {
       product: ['create'],
     },
   },
});

import { auth } from '@/auth';
import { headers } from 'next/headers';

const session = await auth.api.getSession({headers: await headers(),});

const { success: isAuthorized } = await auth.api.userHasPermission({
   body: {
     userId: session.user.id,
       permission: {
       product: ['create'],
     },
   },
});

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