Integration for Authentication Providers

[francesco-hayes]

Curious what everyone things regarding the following:

Providing a way for people to integrate their own auth via a plugin system similar to the seamless ability Payload offers for database adapters. I imagine this'll be a config attribute like "database" but be labeled "auth" and allow people to import their desired auth provider like better-auth, etc.

Curios on what this'd look like and the pull to accomplish such as I've had to rewrite the auth in nearly every Payload CMS project for work / clients and it just seems like this could be made simpler.

import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
import { mongooseAdapter } from '@payloadcms/db-mongodb'
import { betterAuthAdapter } from '@payloadcms/auth'

export default buildConfig({
  secret: process.env.PAYLOAD_SECRET,
  db: mongooseAdapter({
    url: process.env.DATABASE_URI,
  }),
  collections: [
    {
      slug: 'pages',
      fields: [
        {
          name: 'title',
          type: 'text',
        },
      ],
    },
  ],
  auth: betterAuthAdapter({
    // options
  })
})

[pulines]

same here, absolutely love better-auth