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id: initializing
title: "Initializing"
slug: initializing
---

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Create a new client for use in the browser.



## Parameters


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      options
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    <span className="method-list-item-label-badge required">
      required
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      object
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No description provided. 
  
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  <h5 class="method-list-title method-list-title-isChild expanded">Properties</h5>

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      url
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      optional
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       | 
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The URL of the GoTrue server.
  
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  <h4 className="method-list-item-label">
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      persistSession
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      optional
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       |  | 
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Set to "true" if you want to automatically save the user session into local storage.
  
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  <h4 className="method-list-item-label">
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      localStorage
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    <span className="method-list-item-label-badge false">
      optional
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      Storage
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No description provided. 
  
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  <h4 className="method-list-item-label">
    <span className="method-list-item-label-name">
      headers
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      optional
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       | 
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Any additional headers to send to the GoTrue server.
  
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    <span className="method-list-item-label-name">
      detectSessionInUrl
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      optional
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       |  | 
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Set to "true" if you want to automatically detects OAuth grants in the URL and signs in the user.
  
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  <h4 className="method-list-item-label">
    <span className="method-list-item-label-name">
      autoRefreshToken
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    <span className="method-list-item-label-badge false">
      optional
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       |  | 
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Set to "true" if you want to automatically refresh the token before expiring.
  
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