README.md

WunderGraph Example with Clerk Authentication

Getting Started

1. Get Clerk credentials:

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)

{
  "id": "{{user.id}}",
  "email": "{{user.primary_email_address}}",
  "lastName": "{{user.last_name}}",
  "username": "{{user.username}}",
  "firstName": "{{user.first_name}}"
}

9. Copy the JWKS Endpoint url
10. Add a new environment variable to .env.local called CLERK_JWKS_URL and paste the url as the value

2. Install & Start

1. Install the dependencies and run the complete example in one command:

npm install && npm start

3. Use the application

On the NextJS frontend, click the "Login" button. Once the login is complete, the Frontend will automatically fetch the data and inject the bearer token into the origin request.

Learn More

• WunderGraph Docs.
• Clerk Docs

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