Clerk is a developer-first authentication and user management solution. ClerkJS is our foundational JavaScript library for building user management and authentication. It enables you to register, sign in, verify, and manage users for your application using highly customizable flows.
After following the ClerkJS quickstart, you will have learned how to:
- Add the ClerkJS SDK to your JavaScript application
- Use Clerk components to allow users to sign in or out
To add the ClerkJS SDK to your JavaScript application, you have two options:
- Install the package using a package manager, like
npm,yarn, orpnpm. - Use the
<script>tag to load the ClerkJS package from our CDN.
The branches of this repository represent the results of these implementation:
main: The result of following the JavaScript quickstart if you choseNPM moduleas your preferred method.with-script-tag: The result of following the JavaScript quickstart if you chose<script>as your preferred method.
Easily deploy the template to Vercel with the button below. You will need to set the required environment variables in the Vercel dashboard.
git clone https://github.com/clerk/clerk-javascript-quickstartTo run the example locally, you need to:
- Sign up for a Clerk account at https://clerk.com.
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Go to the Clerk dashboard and create an application.
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Set the required Clerk environment variables as shown in the example
envfile. -
npm installthe required dependencies. -
npm run devto launch the development server.
To learn more about Clerk and JavaScript, check out the following resources:
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