Clerk and React Quickstart

Introduction

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 application.

After following the Clerk React quickstart, you will have learned how to:

• Create a new React application using Vite
• Install @clerk/clerk-react
• Set up your environment keys
• Import the Clerk Publishable Key
• Wrap your React app in <ClerkProvider />
• Use Clerk components to protect your content
• Embed the <SignInButton /> and <SignOutButton />
• Deploy your application

Branches of this repository

• main: The result of following the Clerk React quickstart.
• integrate-react-router-dom-using-data-router: The result of following the Add React Router guide.

Deploy

Easily deploy the template to Vercel with the button below. You will need to set the required environment variables in the Vercel dashboard.

Running the template

git clone https://github.com/clerk/clerk-react-quickstart

To run the example locally, you need to:

1. Sign up for a Clerk account at https://clerk.com.

2. Go to the Clerk dashboard and create an application.

3. Set the required Clerk environment variables as shown in the example env file.

4. npm install the required dependencies.

5. npm run dev to launch the development server.

Learn more

To learn more about Clerk and React, check out the following resources:

• Quickstart: Get started with React and Clerk

• Clerk Documentation

• Vite Documentation

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