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Authentication with Clerk - React.js Tutorial
From the course: React: Authentication
Authentication with Clerk
- [Instructor] Alright, well now that we've talked about NextAuth.js, let's talk about another option that is also specific to well, not necessarily Next.js, but definitely specific to the idea of front-end frameworks and creating web applications. But definitely specific to the world of things like front-end and JavaScript and frameworks and Full-Stack applications. And this is something called Clerk, now the interesting thing about Clerk is and if you take a look at their website here, you can see this is it actually provides you with a number of pre-built components that you can add to your site, just like you can add any other kind of React component. And you can actually work on the design of these things. So you can see those all right here. In the Clerk dashboard, instead of having to manipulate those in React in our case, in code. So it's also a hosted solution, so you won't have to worry about doing any pf that self hosting like you would if you did NextAuth.js, but…