Auth doesn't work in Server Actions in NextJS

[judygab]

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Package + Version

• @clerk/clerk-js
• @clerk/clerk-react
• @clerk/nextjs
• @clerk/remix
• @clerk/types
• @clerk/themes
• @clerk/localizations
• @clerk/clerk-expo
• @clerk/backend
• @clerk/clerk-sdk-node
• @clerk/shared
• @clerk/fastify
• @clerk/chrome-extension
• gatsby-plugin-clerk
• build/tooling/chore
• other:

Dependencies + versions

{  
  "dependencies": {
    "@clerk/nextjs": "^4.22.0",
    "next": "13.4.4",
    "postcss": "8.4.23",
    "react": "18.2.0",
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@types/node": "^20.4.2",
    "@types/react": "18.2.15",
    "ts-node": "^10.9.1",
    "typescript": "^5.1.6"
  }
}

Description

Per documentation, I am trying to get user data inside Server Actions. I have app router and I tried both "auth" and "currentUser" inside my server actions, which are created in app/actins, they work for calling other apis but not clerk and the error that I'm getting is:

Error: Clerk: auth() and currentUser() are only supported in App Router (/app directory).
If you're using /pages, try getAuth() instead.
Original error: Error: Invariant: Method expects to have requestAsyncStorage, none available

and the code that I tried was from 'Server Actions' tab:

'use server'
import { auth } from '@clerk/nextjs'
export async function getUserId() {
  const userid = auth().userId
  console.log(userid)
}

[KairuDeibisu]

That's extremely odd, as this is working for me. I'm on nextjs canary

You'll need to do npm install --force next@canary

This is because Clark has a dependency on the version number and it doesn't recognize this experimental version. I should also mention it's basically real time updates to nextjs.

async function fetchLessonsFromDBByStudentId(id: string) {
  const user = await currentUser();
  const records = await prisma.$queryRaw(sqltag`
  SELECT lesson.lesson_id, name, description, lesson_datetime, created_by, created_on, updated_by, updated_on
  FROM lesson
  WHERE created_by = ${user?.id}
  AND lesson.lesson_id IN (
    SELECT lesson_id
    FROM lesson_participant
    WHERE user_id = ${id})`) as unknown as Array<Lesson>
  return records ?? []
}

import { getStudentLessons as getStudentLessonsDB, getTutorLessons as getTutorLessonsDB } from "@/lib/helpers";

export async function getStudentLessons(data: BaseData) : Promise<Array<Lesson>> {
    return getStudentLessonsDB(data.user_id);
}

[KairuDeibisu]

I found a similar looking issue that may be related.

#1481

[jescalan]

Hey friends - just want to let you know that we're looking into this. So sorry for the long delay 😞

[jescalan]

Our most recent tests with server actions were working - is there any chance that someone would be willing to create a minimal reproduction for us on this one? 🙏

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[JavaG23]

in case anyone else runs into this....

import { auth } from '@clerk/nextjs/server';

[Leonardo-Mazzuca]

Hi there!

"dependencies": {
"@clerk/nextjs": "^6.4.2",
"next": "^15.0.4-canary.23",
"react": "19.0.0-rc-66855b96-20241106",
"react-dom": "19.0.0-rc-66855b96-20241106"
},

I'm running into all foruns that is talking about it, because i'm still facing this problem using clerk helpers with server side components.....

Every time i try to access the user info, using auth or currentUser, it returns null for me. But, if i call it on a client side component, it works perfectly.....please, someone can help me??

[raph90]

@Leonardo-Mazzuca identical situation

[raph90]

In fact - this is happening at exactly the same time for both of us, which makes me think this might be a Clerk server problem

[BRKalow]

Hi @Leonardo-Mazzuca and @raph90 can you open a separate issue with a minimal reproduction if possible? Thanks!

[raph90]

@BRKalow I don't have time to create a proper issue unfortunately - I can if this problem persists. But basically doing this:

const clerkCurrentUser = await currentUser();

is returning null on the server, even though there is an active session. I just thought it was interesting that Leonardo and I commented the same thing so close together (the post previously was August 1)

EDIT if it helps, I'm running:

"next": "14.2.3",
"@clerk/nextjs": "^6.4.0",

[raph90]

@Leonardo-Mazzuca Craziest thing but I'm leaving this here just in case this happens to anyone else.

DO NOT set an environment variable called CLERK_API_URL in your code 😆 . That is used internally by Clerk, so if you do what I did and set it to CLERK_API_URL=https://api.clerk.com/v1 stuff will break.

Took me a good few hours to find that one...

[Leonardo-Mazzuca]

@Leonardo-Mazzuca Craziest thing but I'm leaving this here just in case this happens to anyone else.

DO NOT set an environment variable called CLERK_API_URL in your code 😆 . That is used internally by Clerk, so if you do what I did and set it to CLERK_API_URL=https://api.clerk.com/v1 stuff will break.

Took me a good few hours to find that one...

Oh gosh, a small thing that made u lost a lot of time.
Well its how i say to others, somentimes, u can turn into the joker if u are a programmer.

But well done my friend, good that u found that issue😁