Token based authentication with Clerk

This guide will show you how to use Clerk as your authentication provider in an existing Next.js + WunderGraph application.

Configure Clerk

  1. Go to Clerk and create a new application or use an existing one.
  2. On your application dashboard to to API Key
  3. Use the Quick Copy for Next.js and copy the .env.local
  4. Create a new .env.local file in the root folder (next to the package.json)
  5. Paste the credentials into the .env.local file
  6. Go to JWT Templates and create a new Blank template
  7. Name it wundergraph
  8. Use the following template: (You can also include other claims as needed)
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{
  "id": "{{user.id}}",
  "email": "{{user.primary_email_address}}",
  "lastName": "{{user.last_name}}",
  "username": "{{user.username}}",
  "firstName": "{{user.first_name}}"
}
  1. Copy the JWKS Endpoint url

Configure WunderGraph

Open wundergraph.config.ts and add a new token-based authentication provider:

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// ...
authentication: {
    tokenBased: {
        providers: [
            {
                jwksURL: 'https://your-clerk-subdomain.clerk.accounts.dev/.well-known/jwks.json',
            },
        ],
    },
},
// ...

Configure Next.js

Open pages/_app.tsx and add the useWunderGraphClerk middleware to the withWunderGraph call:

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import { Middleware } from 'swr';
import { useAuth } from '@clerk/nextjs';
import { useAuthMiddleware } from '@wundergraph/nextjs';
import { withWunderGraph } from '../components/generated/nextjs';


export const useWunderGraphClerk: Middleware = (useSWRNext) => {
  const auth = useAuth();


  return useAuthMiddleware(useSWRNext, async () => {
    return auth.getToken({ template: 'wundergraph' });
  });
};


const App = () => {
  // ...
};


export default withWunderGraph(App, {
  use: [useWunderGraphClerk],
});

That's it! Your WunderGraph application is now protected by Clerk.

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