Xirynx
BABetter Auth
•Created by Xirynx on 4/4/2025 in #help
Authentication with Express backend + Next.js frontend
This is my first time using Better Auth, so forgive me if this is obvious 😅
I have an existing backend built with Express, which has Better Auth setup and running.
We are creating a new Next.js frontend, on a separate server, which needs to authenticate against this backend.
After reading the docs, seems like authenticating on the Next.js client side is fairly simple using the
better-auth/react package, but trying to get the session on the Next.js server side requires importing the auth instance, which I cannot access since its on our Express backend.
What is the solution if I need to make a server side fetch to our Express backend?8 replies