# How to Build a Secure Project Management Platform with Next.js, Clerk, and Neon

DevFeed: [How to Build a Secure Project Management Platform with Next.js, Clerk, and Neon](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-build-a-secure-project-management-platform-with-next-js-clerk-and-neon-5373.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/how-to-build-a-secure-project-management-platform-with-next-js-clerk-and-neon>)

Author: Brian Morrison

Published: 2025-02-22T01:41:21Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [Next.js](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/next-js.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [Authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authorization.md>), [web applications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-applications.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag.md>)

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## AI overview

A tutorial on building Kozi, a secure collaborative project and knowledge management web application with Next.js, Clerk, and Neon. It presents security practices including authenticated route protection, authorization checks, expiring tokens, and server-side database access, while outlining features such as organizations, collaborative notes, comments, notifications, and RAG for notes and uploaded files.

## Source excerpt

This article was first published in the Clerk blog. Around 30,000 websites and applications are hacked every day*, and the developer is often to blame. The vast majority of breaches occur due to misconfiguration rather than an actual vulnerability. This could be due to exposed da...