Thanks for taking the time to improve Better Auth! This is a small document to get you started.
Please refer to the getting-started documentation specific to contributing for more information.
If you see any security issue we prefer you to disclose it via an email ([email protected]). All reports will be promptly addressed, and you'll be credited accordingly.
Learn more about our security issues documentation.
- Rather than extensive configurations, focus instead on providing opinionated, best-practice defaults.
- Try to make a consistent and predictable API across all supported frameworks
- Everything should be type-safe and embrace typescript magic when necessary.
Read more about development in the getting-started documentation.
- Fork the repo
- clone your fork.
- install node.js (preferable latest LTS).
- run
cp -n ./docs/.env.example ./docs/.env
to create a.env
file (if it doesn't exist) - run
pnpm i
in your terminal to install dependencies. - create a branch.
- build the project using
pnpm build
- run
pnpm -F docs dev
(to run the docs section) - create a draft pull request. link the relevant issue by referring to it in the PR's description. Eg.closes #123 will link the PR to issue/pull request #123.
- implement your changes.
Read more about testing in the testing guide.