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@hono/clerk-auth
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This is a Clerk third-party middleware for Hono.
This middleware can be used to inject the active Clerk session into the request context.
npm i hono @hono/clerk-auth
Before starting using the middleware you must set the following environment variables:
CLERK_SECRET_KEY=<You-secret-key>
CLERK_PUBLISHABLE_KEY=<Your-publishable-key>
import { clerkMiddleware, getAuth } from '@hono/clerk-auth'
import { Hono } from 'hono'
const app = new Hono()
app.use('*', clerkMiddleware())
app.get('/', (c) => {
const auth = getAuth(c)
if (!auth?.userId) {
return c.json({
message: 'You are not logged in.',
})
}
return c.json({
message: 'You are logged in!',
userId: auth.userId,
})
})
export default app
import { clerkMiddleware, getAuth } from '@hono/clerk-auth'
import { Hono } from 'hono'
const app = new Hono()
app.use('*', clerkMiddleware())
app.get('/', async (c) => {
const clerkClient = c.get('clerk')
try {
const user = await clerkClient.users.getUser('user_id_....')
return c.json({
user,
})
} catch (e) {
return c.json(
{
message: 'User not found.',
},
404
)
}
})
export default app
Vaggelis Yfantis https://github.com/octoper
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A third-party Clerk auth middleware for Hono
The npm package @hono/clerk-auth receives a total of 19,129 weekly downloads. As such, @hono/clerk-auth popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @hono/clerk-auth demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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