Chirag-Authentication

[tame moon]

as linesofcode said you should definitely consider going passwordless

My personal favourite library for authentication is supertokens which is similar to next-auth but provides more methods (EmailPassword, Social oAuth and Passwordless) https://supertokens.com/ however the hosted version is limited to 5,000 users (it's also possible to self host the backend)

There's a documentation page on auth here https://nextjs.org/docs/authentication which lists alternatives such as supabase, firebase, ory, clerk and auth0.
Ory and Auth0 are typically for enterprise, but you can use auth0 for free up to 7000 users and ory is free self-hosted

[solemn panther]

aight, thanks but i'd still prefer passwords over magic links since the user will have to open up their mail client every time they want to login