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content/but-auth-is-hard/index.md

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 So, how hard can auth really be? Let's dig in.
 
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 ## In the days of yore...
 
 Picking up where I left the story about PHP and md5, building a login functionality followed a similar set of steps; Get an email and a password, check for the existence of the email in your storage, hash the password together with the salt stored for that email, compare the resulting hash with the one stored in the database, and if it all works out fine, set a cookie via `setcookie` (we're still in PHP land here - not that the overall logic was too different in other ecosystems).
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 Some handlers (https://github.com/supertokens/auth-express/blob/master/index.mjs#L122-L133) and configuration (https://github.com/supertokens/auth-express/blob/master/index.mjs#L29-L45) later, well, that's it. Complicated? Probably not. Red-tapey? You bet. Boring? Absolutely. Especially if you get to do it over and over again. It is a solved problem; reinventing wheels is often not the best use of one's time as we've established.
 
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 ## The big idea
 
 By now, we can probably agree that Auth isn't hard to _build_. Ergo, it's not this magical thing that only white-bearded wizards who speak the mystical language of JWTs can understand and implement.
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 ## The takeaway: auth is the "red tape" of dev
 
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 My "big" takeaway is to avoid reinventing wheels, especially if it's a solved problem, as auth is. Get educated about said wheels, experiment with them, build a toy wheel, and understand it. But please, please, don't sell it as this impossibly hard thing to understand and build. Educate, don't gatekeep.