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Moving off Clerk to Better Auth: what's mechanical and what's a rebuild
I've done a fair number of NextAuth to Better Auth moves, and they're mostly mechanical: same general shape, swap the library, fix a few call sites. Clerk is a different animal, and you should know that going in.
NextAuth is a library. Clerk is a hosted product: pre-built React components plus a hosted user store that lives on Clerk's servers. When you move off Clerk you're not swapping one auth library for another — you're replacing UI you never wrote, re-implementing session logic Clerk did...
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