A simple and flexible authentication library
Lucia is a simple and flexible authentication library. Licensed under MIT, it is popular in the JavaScript ecosystem with 128.1K weekly downloads.
Lucia has an good overall health score of 63/100. Its strongest dimension is security (100/100), while maintenance (40/100) is the area with most room for improvement. This package is in good shape overall.
The complete 2026 guide to React authentication. Clerk, Auth.js, Lucia, and rolling your own. Session vs JWT, when to use a service vs self-host, and.
2026-03-08T00:00:00.000ZLucia is a minimal auth library that gives you full control. NextAuth handles more for you. Compare them for building custom authentication in TypeScript.
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