Clerk Auth in Route Handlers
Hi everyone 
I need help for a pretty specific edge case. A third party library which I use alongside Convex needs to generate an authentication token by using NextJS route handlers endpoint.
Lets call this
In this route handler, which is a POST request, I need to have access to currently logged in user.
I know I can access convex instance using the following:
This is usualy accessible with
How would I solve this specific issue? Here are a couple of things that come to mind:
- Add @clerk/nextjs & middleware.ts (I have a feeling this will break things)
- convex/http (I tried this, but did not really understand if I can test this out locally?)
- getToken I see this popping up in discord searches, but do not really understand how I should approach it.
My main goal is to get access to user ID inside route handler (I also need user organization ID, but I will debug that later)
Thanks!
I need help for a pretty specific edge case. A third party library which I use alongside Convex needs to generate an authentication token by using NextJS route handlers endpoint.
Lets call this
/api/third-party-authIn this route handler, which is a POST request, I need to have access to currently logged in user.
I know I can access convex instance using the following:
const convex = new ConvexHttpClient(process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_CONVEX_URL!);This is usualy accessible with
@clerk/nextjs@clerk/reactctx.identityHow would I solve this specific issue? Here are a couple of things that come to mind:
- Add @clerk/nextjs & middleware.ts (I have a feeling this will break things)
- convex/http (I tried this, but did not really understand if I can test this out locally?)
- getToken I see this popping up in discord searches, but do not really understand how I should approach it.
My main goal is to get access to user ID inside route handler (I also need user organization ID, but I will debug that later)
Thanks!
