How to Setup User Authentication in React Project with Clerk | React Auth Tutorial 🔑⚛️

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In this step-by-step tutorial, you’ll learn **how to set up user authentication in a React project using Clerk** — a modern authentication and user management solution. Clerk makes it easy to add **sign-up, login, passwordless authentication, social logins, and user profile management** to your React applications without building everything from scratch. If you’re working on a React project and want a **secure and scalable authentication system**, Clerk is one of the best choices. By the end of this video, you’ll be able to integrate Clerk into your React app, configure authentication flows, and protect routes so only logged-in users can access them. --- 🛠️ **What You’ll Learn in This Tutorial:** * How to **set up a React project** (or use an existing one) * How to **install and configure Clerk** in your app * Adding **sign-up, login, and logout functionality** * Enabling **social logins** (Google, GitHub, etc.) * Protecting routes using Clerk’s authentication components * Accessing and displaying **user profile data** * Best practices for secure authentication in React apps --- 📌 **Step-by-Step Setup:** 1. Create a new React project (or open your existing app). 2. Sign up on **[Clerk]( and create a new application. 3. Install Clerk via npm or yarn: ```bash npm install @clerk/clerk-react ``` 4. Wrap your app with the **ClerkProvider** and add your API keys. 5. Use pre-built Clerk components like: 6. Protect routes using `SignedIn` and `SignedOut` wrappers. 7