Note this repo assumes basic knowledge of using the MongoDB adapter and ClerkJS for auth with Tina.

Getting started

Copy the .env.sample and provide the appropriate values

cp .env.sample .env

For the GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN, ensure you have access to write content to the repo.

Run the Tina dev server along with your app

npm run dev

This will ensure that the tina/config is watched for changes, and it will host the database server, which is only used if TINA_PUBLIC_IS_LOCAL is true.

Run the Express function

You'll also need to run the separate express server function, you can do this in another terminal with npm run express-dev.

Test it out

Visit the admin at http://localhost:5173/admin/index.html and login to Clerk, be sure to use the same email address that you supplied as TINA_PUBLIC_PERMITTED_EMAIL in the .env file.

Testing auth

Set TINA_PUBLIC_IS_LOCAL to "false" to test your Clerk auth integration locally

Going to production

Depending on how you plan to host your express server, steps will vary. But the main thing you'll need to ensure is that you have all of the approproate environment variables loaded, and that the contentApiUrlOverride value reflects the location of your GraphQL endpoint.