MERN-template VS auth-server

Anyway, the structure of this website uses microservices, driven by an engine I dubbed the MERN-template. It has it's own auth service, and supports both chat and a news feed. The game-specific elements are closed-source though (the idea is you fork the core repo, and build out from there).

i use mariadb, but yes.

Backstory: Decade Jam, a game jam that lasts for a decade, began Jan 1st, 2020. I started writing a web game called Egg Trainer, but after a year of work realized that my codebase wasn't workable anymore. So at the beginning of 2021, I began working on a game engine that would power the beta version of ET - this is called the MERN-template (clearly, I'm bad at naming things).

My MERN-template actually uses MySQL. There's no requirement that you do it one specific way.

I'd use the MERN-template project that I wrote myself. It's essentially the mern stack, except with MySQL.

I've basically written this thing from the ground up, including an open source engine that uses microservices.

Anyway here's my game engine.

Oh, I've done this with my MERN-template. It was designed to power my game, but I made it available for others to use.

So I wrote this a while back: https://github.com/krgamestudios/auth-server

PROTIP: Don't do authentication yourself, unless you're nuts like me.

My question: One of these microservices, the auth-server, apparently has over 1600 downloads; the other two services also have hundreds of downloads.

That's absurd. Things like this are why I built my own auth server. Yes, it's high maintenance, but it works for me.

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Geez, there's a lot of self promotion in these comments - like, I could totally plug my JWT auth server, which is part of my MERN-template... but that would be rather rude :P

The big question: Why would I switch to this rather than using my own solution? Ignore my dislike of typescript and graphQL, what makes your solution easier to go than my docker-based microservice: https://github.com/krgamestudios/auth-server