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Clerk

Drop-in auth for React/Next.js. Pre-built sign-in UI, session management, user profiles, org management. This site uses Clerk for authentication.

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Clerk handles authentication on this site. It provides pre-built React components for sign-in, sign-up, and user profile management. Integration with Next.js is seamless - wrap your app in ClerkProvider, add SignInButton, and you're done. It handles OAuth (Google, GitHub), email/password, MFA, session management, and user metadata. The developer experience is genuinely good - I chose it for this site before I ever made a video about it. Free tier supports 10K monthly active users.

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