Clerk and Chrome Extension Quickstart

Introduction

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 Chrome Extension application.

After following the quickstart you'll have learned how to:

Scaffold a new application using the Plasmo framework
Install @clerk/chrome-extension
Set your environment variables
Add <ClerkProvider> to your application
Create a header with Clerk components for users to sign in and out
Configure a consistent CRX key
Load your Chrome Extension into your Chromium-based browser
Test your Chrome Extension

Running the template

git clone https://github.com/clerkinc/clerk-chrome-extension-quickstart

To run the example locally, you need to:

Sign up for a Clerk account at https://clerk.com.
Go to the Clerk dashboard and create an application.
Set the required Clerk environment variables as shown in the example .env.development file.
Create a consistent CRX ID for your extension.
Set the public key are shown in the example .env.chrome file.
pnpm install the required dependencies.
pnpm dev to launch the development server.

Learn more

To learn more about Clerk and Chrome Extensions, check out the following resources:

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