Which Provider should I pick?

To pick a provider you will first have to take into consideration the requirements of your use-case. In general one can say that picking:

authjs is best suited for plug-and-play OAuth for established oauth-providers or magic-url based sign-ins.
local is best when you already have a backend that accepts username + password as a login or want to build a static application. The Local Provider also supports refresh tokens since v0.9.0.

Breaking change

In v0.9.0 the refresh provider was integrated into the local provider. Read the upgrade guide.

If you are still unsure, below are some tables to help you pick:

	authjs provider	local provider
OAuth	✅ (>50 providers)	❌
Magic URLs	✅	❌
Credentials / Username + Password flow	🚧 (if possible: use `local` instead)	✅
Refresh tokens	✅	✅

	authjs provider	local provider
`useAuth`-composable to sign in/out, refresh a session, etc.	✅	✅
Session-management: auto-refresh, refresh on refocus, ...	✅	✅
Static apps ("nuxi generate")	❌	✅
Guest mode	✅	✅
App-side middleware	✅	✅
Server-side middleware	✅	❌
Pre-made login-page	✅ (impacts bundle-size)	❌
Database-adapters, server-side callback-hooks	✅	❌

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