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Leap recommends using Clerk for user authentication, it’s a scalable and enterprise-ready authentication solution that comes with a generous free tier. Leap has an integration with Clerk, which handles all the implementation steps to set up user authentication for your app. Here’s how you use it. 1. Prompt Leap Once you’ve created your app and are ready to add user authentication, paste this prompt in the chat box and send: 
Implement authentication using Clerk
Leap will now implement the auth flow using Clerk and set up all the required public and secret keys. 2. Create a Clerk account and claim your app
  • Once Leap has finished, you will see a new Users page in Leap’s top navigation, open it.
  • Here you will see a message instructing you to claim your application, click the link to go to Clerk’s website where you can create an account and then claim your app.
  • Once you’ve done this, you’re app is all set with user authentication for the Preview and any Staging environments you create.

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Best practices before releasing your app

Verify the code that Leap generated Authentication is an important part of your application. We recommend always spending some time verifying that the implementation is correct. Ask a developer colleague or friend if you need help.
  • You can ask Leap to point you to files to review, open them and confirm:
    • A top-level provider or wrapper for Clerk on the client.
    • Server routes or middleware that verify the session using the secret key.
    • Example protected routes that check for a signed-in user.
Test the full auth flow
  • In your running app, click Sign up or Sign in and complete the flow.
  • Visit a protected page to confirm redirect and access rules.
Production readiness
  • When Leap sets up the Clerk integration, it uses Clerk’s development instance. This is Clerk’s default for development and staging environments.
  • Before releasing your app to the public, Clerk recommends creating a Production instance. Learn more in Clerk’s production readiness guide

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Getting help

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