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Convex Community•3y ago•

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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 /api/third-party-auth/api/third-party-auth

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:
const convex = new ConvexHttpClient(process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_CONVEX_URL!);const convex = new ConvexHttpClient(process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_CONVEX_URL!); But I am not sure if I can use that to access current auth.

This is usualy accessible with @clerk/nextjs@clerk/nextjs package, but as far as I understand, for Convex + Clerk we use @clerk/react@clerk/react package instead, and then we access "backend" auth using ctx.identityctx.identity

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!