not using next-auth. I don't like using jwt for authentication.

@jaycoda I've been using that combo for years on some projects. There's quite a lot of scaremongering in the community about rolling your auth, and there are valid concerns about why you shouldn't, but if you're happy to take it on, I say do it!

As long as you're using something like bcrypt to salt your passwords, you should be good!

Thanks, I just wanted to know would you suggest that combo (auth v5 /mongoDB) as a starting learning project, or would you suggest an alternative using credentials? And Yes I have been using Bcrypt and alot of validation

what would you suggest as an alternative to handle credentials auth?

try clerk

I've heard https://lucia-auth.com/ is good option

You have some nice auth libraries listen on Next.js docs:

https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/building-your-application/authentication#auth-libraries

yeah I have heard of lucia and clerk, I will do some more research on them, thanks 👍

lucia goat library for auth