Better Auth + Next.js + Prisma

Authentication on Next.js with Better Auth, users and sessions stored in Postgres via Prisma.

TypeScriptAuth & AIPostgres

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What you can build with it

Apps for people outside your company domain
Sign-up flows and member areas
Multi-user tools with roles

What's inside

Better Auth setup
Prisma auth schema
Postgres via DATABASE_URL

Before you deploy

Set BETTER_AUTH_SECRET to a long random string and BETTER_AUTH_URL to the app's URL.
Set BETTER_AUTH_SECRET, BETTER_AUTH_URL as secrets with elula env secret.
Add a managed Postgres with elula init --database; the connection string is injected as DATABASE_URL.

Source

github.com/prisma/prisma-examples/tree/latest/orm/betterauth-nextjs

Start with your AI

Paste this into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or another AI coding assistant. It copies the template into your own private repo, deploys it to Elula and gives you the live URL.

Start a new project from the Better Auth + Next.js + Prisma template at https://github.com/prisma/prisma-examples/tree/latest/orm/betterauth-nextjs and deploy it to Elula: copy the folder into a new private GitHub repo, install the Elula CLI if needed, then run elula init --database and elula deploy --no-wait. A deploy takes a few minutes: run elula status --wait 60 until it says Live, and tell me which step it's on each time. Run elula docs if anything is unclear. Give me the live URL.

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Deploy on Elula

Prefer the terminal? Start your own private copy and ship it with the CLI.

npx degit prisma/prisma-examples/orm/betterauth-nextjs#latest my-betterauth-nextjs
cd my-betterauth-nextjs && git init && git add -A && git commit -m "Start from the Better Auth + Next.js + Prisma template"
gh repo create my-betterauth-nextjs --private --source . --push
elula init --database
elula env secret BETTER_AUTH_SECRET=...
elula env secret BETTER_AUTH_URL=...
elula deploy

Deploy from the dashboard Install the CLI

Clone the repo

Grab just this template's folder and run it locally.

git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --sparse -b latest https://github.com/prisma/prisma-examples.git
cd prisma-examples && git sparse-checkout set orm/betterauth-nextjs
cd orm/betterauth-nextjs