Running Clerk on NestJs is it possible?

Question

Is it possible to use Clerk on NestJs? I have been unable to find any documentation towards this. If it is possible and anyone has examples, please feel welcome to share.

Thanks

Answer 1

nestjs is a nodejs framework

so anything you can do in nodejs is possible in nestjs.

Follow Clerk nodejs's docs and you should be fine

Answer 2

Clerk’s node sdk should be enough to create a strategy and authguard in Nest. An authguard is just a piece of middleware that implements a strategy you define. Essentially you capture the jwt that you should be sending in the header (Bearer) to each request on your api.

I have used the Clerk-node-sdk in a project with a GraphQL Yoga server and it was pretty straight forward. Clerk has a validate function on their SDK which is what you will use in your Nest SDK to validate the jwt being sent from your frontend. I’d start there and work within a strategy with Nest.

Answer 3

in app.controller.ts :

import { Controller, Get } from '@nestjs/common';
import { AppService } from './app.service';

@Controller()
export class AppController {
  constructor(private readonly appService: AppService) {}

  @Get()
  async getClientList() {
    return await this.appService.getClientList();
  }
}

in app.service.ts :

import { Injectable} from '@nestjs/common';
import { Clerk } from '@clerk/clerk-sdk-node';

@Injectable()

    export class AppService {
      private clerkClient;

      constructor() {
        this.clerkClient = Clerk({
          secretKey: 'sk_test_yourApiKey',
        });
      }
    
      async getClientList() {
        return await this.clerkClient.users.getUserList();
      }
    }

in app.module.ts :

import { Module } from '@nestjs/common';
import { AppController } from './app.controller';
import { AppService } from './app.service';

@Module({
  imports: [],
  controllers: [AppController],
  providers: [AppService],
})
export class AppModule {}

then start ur server and go to your localhost : me is http://localhost:3002/ but http://localhost:3000/ by default and adapt to your route me for this moment i have just app.service.ts i don't have created route yet