Slack

How to set up social connection with Slack

Overview

Adding social connection with Slack to your app with Clerk is done in a few steps - you only need to set the Client ID, Client Secret and Authorized redirect URL in your instance settings.

To make the development flow as smooth as possible, Clerk uses preconfigured shared OAuth credentials and redirect URIs for development instances - no other configuration is needed.

For production instances, you will need to generate your own Client ID and Client secret using your Slack account.

Before you start

• You need to create a Clerk Application in your Clerk Dashboard. For more information, check out our Set up your application guide.
• You need to have a Slack account. To create one, click here.

Configuring Slack social connection

First, you need to create a new OAuth Slack app. On the main Slack apps page, click on Create new app. On the modal that pops up, choose From scratch, enter your application name and choose a Slack workspace to associate with it.

In the Clerk Dashboard, go to User & Authentication > Social Connections and enable Slack. In the modal that opened, ensure Use custom credentials is enabled and copy Authorized redirect URI. Navigate to OAuth & Permissions > Redirect URLs and paste the value to add a new record.

Copy the Client ID and Client secret as shown in the above image from the Basic Information menu of your app. Go back to the Clerk Dashboard and paste them into the respective fields.

Don't forget to click Apply in the Clerk dashboard. Congratulations! Social connection with Slack is now configured for your instance.