Stack Auth Updates #5: Pure React components, Neon, local emulator

This week, we released pure React components that don't depend on Next.js, a new collaboration with Neon, and a preview of a new local emulator.

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Konstantin Wohlwend
February 27, 2025

Welcome to Stack Auth’s weekly newsletter!

As a reminder, Stack Auth is an open-source project and we don’t put our own logo or branding into your components, so we rely on our users to spread the word. If you enjoy using Stack Auth, we’d highly appreciate if you would let your friends know :]

New library: @stackframe/react

We heard you! You want more platforms, but without losing out on our beautiful Next.js components. Good news for you, because React is now officially a supported platform! This library works with vanilla React, yet contains all the components and hooks from the Next.js SDK.

To get started with the React library, check out our Getting Started guide.

All these components are now available for React, too.

Integration: Neon Auth

This week, Neon and Stack Auth together released Neon Auth, the fastest way to add auth to your Neon database. Neon Auth is built on top of Stack Auth and you can export your project to Stack Auth at any time.

All it takes for you to get started is to open the new Auth tab in your Neon console and select Stack Auth as your auth provider. Neon will automatically create a new Stack Auth project, which you can then transfer to your account later.

Preview: Local emulator

We have something cool planned! Want to use Stack Auth locally for development, without affecting your production Stack Auth project? We are working on a local emulator that’s just a single command to start, which is a complete version of Stack Auth as you’d find it on our dashboard or in the self-hostable Docker container. Interested in the progress? Reach out to us on our Discord!

Besides mocking your authentication logic, the new local emulator lets you test emails without actually sending them.

Bug fixes & improvements

As always, we pushed several bug fixes and minor improvements this week, including:

  • Fixed a bug where magic links would sometimes not work in new versions of Next.js

  • Fixed an issue where the origin for the JWKS URL was always `undefined`

Thanks for reading, and as always, see you next week!