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.
Firebase is Google’s all-in-one app development platform, providing developers with tools and infrastructure to build, scale, and improve apps quickly and efficiently.
Integrating Firebase with Clerk gives you the benefits of using Firebase's features while leveraging Clerk's authentication, prebuilt components, and webhooks.
After following the Clerk + Firebase integration guide, you will have learned how to:
- Configure Firebase to accept JWTs from Clerk
- Create a JWT template in Clerk to generate Firebase JWTs
- Use the Firebase JWTs to authenticate Firebase queries in your Next.js app
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/clerkinc/clerk-firebase-nextjsTo run the example locally, you need to:
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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
env.local.examplefile. -
npm installthe required dependencies. -
Follow the Clerk + Firebase integration guide to set up your Firebase database.
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npm run devto launch the development server.
To learn more about Clerk and Next.js, check out the following resources:
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