Auth.js vs. Clerk vs. Preact vs. Python Comparison Chart

Auth.js is an open-source authentication library designed to integrate seamlessly with modern JavaScript frameworks, providing a flexible and secure authentication experience. It supports various authentication methods, including OAuth (e.g., Google, GitHub), credentials, and WebAuthn, allowing developers to choose the most suitable approach for their applications. Auth.js is compatible with multiple frameworks, such as Next.js, SvelteKit, Express, Qwik, and SolidStart, enabling developers to implement authentication across different platforms. The library offers built-in support for popular databases like Prisma, Drizzle ORM, Supabase, Firebase, and TypeORM, facilitating user data management. Security features include signed cookies, CSRF token validation, and encrypted JSON Web Tokens (JWTs), ensuring robust protection for user data. Auth.js is designed to operate efficiently in serverless environments and provides comprehensive documentation and examples.

Preact provides the thinnest possible Virtual DOM abstraction on top of the DOM. It builds on stable platform features, registers real event handlers and plays nicely with other libraries. Most UI frameworks are large enough to be the majority of an app's JavaScript size. Preact is different: it's small enough that your code is the largest part of your application. That means less JavaScript to download, parse and execute - leaving more time for your code, so you can build an experience you define without fighting to keep a framework under control. Preact is fast, and not just because of its size. It's one of the fastest Virtual DOM libraries out there, thanks to a simple and predictable diff implementation. We automatically batch updates and tune Preact to the extreme when it comes to performance. We work closely with browser engineers to get the maximum performance possible out of Preact.