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create-clerk-app
Advanced tools
With NPM:
$ npm create clerk-app@latest
With Yarn:
$ yarn create clerk-app
With PNPM:
$ pnpm create clerk-app
With Bun:
$ bun create clerk-app
Currently supported template presets include:
nextjs-app-router
nextjs-pages-router
This project also contains code derived or copied from [https://github.com/vitejs/vite].
MIT License © 2025 Vaggelis Yfantis
FAQs
## Scaffolding Your First Clerk application
The npm package create-clerk-app receives a total of 2 weekly downloads. As such, create-clerk-app popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that create-clerk-app 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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