Getting Started with React, Vite and Clerk Auth on Netlify

Very many applications and interactive tools on the web require some sort of user authentication and authorization. Historically, adding such things to a project would greatly expand its complexity and risk. Happily though, these days we can make use of third-party tools and services to provide our authentication and authorization layers for us. Clerk is an excellent tool for this. What does it look like to use it in a project built with React and Vite?