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Clerk React SDK

The Clerk React SDK is built on top of the and gives you access to prebuilt components, hooks, and helpers to make user authentication easier. Refer to the to get started.

Custom hooks

The React SDK provides hooks that include access to the object, , , and a set of useful helper methods for signing in and signing up.

Framework-specific SDKs

Important

Clerk provides optimized SDKs for specific React frameworks. If you're using one of the supported frameworks below, you should use its dedicated SDK instead of @clerk/clerk-react.

Clerk offers framework-specific SDKs that are customized to provide the better developer experience and integration with each framework's features. Choose the appropriate SDK based on your framework:

FrameworkPackageDocs
Next.js@clerk/nextjs
React Router@clerk/react-router
Remix@clerk/remix
Astro@clerk/astro
Tanstack React Start@clerk/tanstack-react-start

Set up Clerk React

Before you can add Clerk to your React application, you must create a Clerk app in the Clerk Dashboard. To get started, follow the . Then, follow the to set up the React SDK in your app.

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