serverless-next.js VS next-auth

I'm currently waiting SST v2 to be released where they will use https://open-next.js.org instead of https://github.com/serverless-nextjs/serverless-next.js

To deploy the app, I had the requirement to use AWS as a cloud-provider, with a limited budget, so neither Vercel (a safe choice, as it is the company which develops Next.js), nor a containerized solution like the managed AWS ECS Fargate service could satisfy my needs. Then, I started with a serverless hosting thanks to the serverless-next project, which provides a serverless plugin or a CDK construct to deploy a Next.js stack. However, this project is no more well-maintained and new Next.js features (like middlewares, etc.) are not supported.

If you have the time and resources, I'd suggest to take a look at SST.dev and or OpenNext (created by the SST people). With that ISR should work (although they still seem to work on upgrading to v12). Or take a look at https://github.com/sladg/nextjs-lambda to run NextJS on a lambda exclusively.

serverlessnextjs does not support NextJS 13. https://github.com/serverless-nextjs/serverless-next.js/issues/2497

I hate Amplify. I've been using it for around 2 weeks, because serverless-next.js no longer works with Next v13.

Let's mention that it's possible to deploy a Next.js application using SST 😅. This setup relies on the serverless-next.js project and it's hidden behind a construct named NextJsSite. It can be a very efficient solution when you want to ship your application on AWS environment (I use it for a production workload in my current company).

ATM Next JS is SSR (Server Side Rendering) so only S3 and CloudFront is not enough! As mentioned here already Lambda@Edge can do the server parts and is used like in Amplify. An Alternative would the serverless framework which offers a next js deployment https://github.com/serverless-nextjs/serverless-next.js .

NextAuth.js is not perfect. One of the shortcomings is that it currently does not implement federated logout. This means that even if a user signs out of the Next.js app, he does NOT get signed out of the Cognito user pool client. As a consequence, the user is not really being logged out (i.e he is able to login again without providing the credentials). You can read more about this problem in this Github thread.

NextAuth for adding auth

Let's learn a bit about Descope and how to use it with Auth.js (next-auth) to protect our Next.js app with role-based access control (RBAC).

https://github.com/nextauthjs/next-auth/issues/5647#issuecom...

Next Auth CognitoProvider Internal Library: https://github.com/nextauthjs/next-auth/blob/v4/packages/next-auth/src/providers/cognito.ts

I mentioned this in an age-old discussion on NextAuth GitHub repo.

Authentication is a fundamental part of most web applications. Integrating authentication into your Next.js app can be simplified with NextAuth, a powerful authentication library that supports various authentication methods. However, the documentation around setting up NextAuth with the "Credentials" auth provider might not be as clear as you'd hope. My implementation is greatly enriched and partially based on Next-Auth docs and the following github thread.

For Auth: https://authjs.dev/ - works like a charm with Svelte https://authjs.dev/reference/sveltekit

NextAuth.js

I'm surprised nobody mentioned https://authjs.dev/