Clerk Authentication Starter

A modern authentication and user management starter template, built with the Next.js App Router and powered by Clerk.

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 or Next.js application.

This template allows you to get started with Clerk and Next.js (App Router) in a matter of minutes, and demonstrates features of Clerk such as:

Fully functional auth flow with sign-in, sign-up, and a protected page
Customized Clerk components with Tailwind CSS
Hooks for accessing user data and authentication state
Organizations for multi-tenant applications

Demo

A hosted demo of this example is available at https://clerk-nextjs-app-router.vercel.app/

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-nextjs-demo-app-router

To 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 as shown in the example env file.
Go to "Organization Settings" in your sidebar and enable Organizations
npm install the required dependencies.
npm run dev to launch the development server.

Learn more

To learn more about Clerk and Next.js, check out the following resources:

Found an issue or have feedback?

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