We chose Clerk authentication because it provides a comprehensive, secure, and user-friendly way to manage user logins and sessions in your application, essentially handling all the complexities of authentication so you can focus on building your core features, with benefits like: ready-to-use UI components, robust security features like multi-factor authentication and device monitoring, easy integration with popular frameworks, and a focus on performance and scalability, all without requiring extensive configuration on your part.
To have a working, professional authentication system out of the box simply create an account at Clerk and add to your .env file these two values:
NEXT_PUBLIC_CLERK_PUBLISHABLE_KEY=pk_test_YxGnq9uz-MrAvkpN-Pl.wfTmx.gmYdpugx.lshqsv.cmZ@CLERK_SECRET_KEY=sk_test_Jq8YrLwVZTnBxoAQkGyPch94ud5Kr7tnXpRzDWF3MJ