Clerk is a developer-first authentication and user management solution. It provides pre-built React components and hooks for sign-in, sign-up, user profile, and organization management. Clerk is designed to be easy to use and customize, and can be dropped into any React or Next.js application.
The user onboarding flow plays a crucial role in your application development journey, and Clerk significantly simplifies this process with built-in tooling like customizable session data, middleware in the Next.js SDK.
This repo is a working implementation of a full stack Next.js app showcasing how to leverage Clerk for your user onboarding flow and includes the following:
- Fully functional auth flow leveraging the Account Portal
- Hooks for accessing user data and authentication state
- Customized clerkMiddleware to leverage state for redirect
A hosted demo of this example is available at https://sample-onboarding-app.clerkpreview.com/
git clone https://github.com/clerk/clerk-nextjs-onboarding-sample-appTo run the example locally, you need to:
- Sign up for a Clerk account at https://clerk.com.
- Go to the Clerk dashboard and create an application.
- Set the required Clerk environment variables
pnpm installthe required dependencies.pnpm devto launch the development server.
Alternatively, to use npm instead of pnpm, first delete the
pnpm-lock.yamlfile and runnpm installandnpm run dev
To learn more about Clerk and Next.js, check out the following resources:
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