I agree with your point in general, but I think passport.js and its ecosystem of plugins are very helpful. It’s lightweight and customizable for however you wan

I agree with your point in general, but I think passport.js and its ecosystem of plugins are very helpful. It’s lightweight and customizable for however you want to fetch and serialize sessions, and there are tons of examples online. Do you need it? No, but it makes it easier to standardize your login methods. A non-engineer on our team was able to build “login with linkedin” in less than a day just by following other examples in our codebase which is pretty powerful.