Playbook

Overview

Better Auth

Using @better-auth/cli to initialize and setup Better Auth

Init

The init command allows you to initialize Better Auth in your project iteratively.

This will generate auth-client.ts , auth.ts and add dependencies.

cd apps/console
bunx @better-auth/cli@latest init

Generate

Generate better auth database schema for Drizzle ORL

Run the migration or generate the schema to add the necessary fields and tables to the database.

cd packages/db
dotenv-run -v -- bunx @better-auth/cli generate --config ../../apps/console/src/lib/auth.ts --output src/schema/auth.ts

React Email

Setting up Resend / react-email

Let's talk about the packages we just installed:

• resend: It is the service that we will be using to send emails
• react-email: It allows us to create email templates using React Js.
• @react-email/render: For converting react js based templates to an html string.

cd apps/console
bun add react-email -D -E
bun add resend @react-email/components  @react-email/render -E

References

• How to send emails using Next.js 14, Resend and React-Email blog