Changelog September 15, 2023

Nick Parsons

This week, we shipped an improved account portal, added support for swapping keys in Expo, and shipped several quality-of-life enhancements across the stack.

🛠️ Improved Account Portal

Previously known as “Hosted Pages”, the Account Portal gives you an upgraded section in the Clerk Dashboard for much easier configuration for all of your application’s key screens. The Account Portal is also the fastest way to add authentication and user management to your application. We provide fully managed and hosted Sign-in, Sign-up, and User Profile views that live on your domain, so you don’t have to build it all yourself.

Head to the docs to learn about more about the Account Portal and how simple it is to get started.

✨ Other Fixes & Improvements

Added support in Clerk Expo for swapping your keys without needing a new build
Improved clock skew detection in development
Enhanced path ignoring in @clerk/clerk-react to make it more reliable
Improved Next.js middleware static file detection
Created new OG images for our Docs pages and Blog Posts 💅

📚 Resources

Real-time chat with Websockets, Novel and Clerk: In this tutorial from Nevo David, you will learn how to build a real-time chat app in Next.js using Socket.io for bidirectional communication between the client and server, Clerk for user authentication, and Novel as the rich-text editor.
Data sharing with multimodal LLM on Steamship: This example app shows how to share data from your Postgres database with a multimodal LLM hosted on Steamship, using Clerk for authentication and Vercel for hosting.
Stop the Bots – AI’s Auth Challenge: In this talk at Vercel's AI Accelerator, Clerk’s CEO Colin Sidoti discusses the importance of preventing bot signups and how to implement effective authentication to stop automated bots.

🙌 Community Shoutouts

Thank you to the Exograph team for integrating Clerk as an authentication provider. This integration makes it easy to add secure sign-in to Exograph apps with just a few lines of code. Learn More →
Shoutout to Nico Albanese, the maintainer of Kirimase, who recently added Clerk as an authentication provider. Kirimase is a Rails-like CLI for Next.js that allows you to quickly integrate essential packages and scaffold resources for your app. Learn More →

Stay tuned for future updates. If you have feedback or suggestions, leave us feedback on the docs via Docsly, tweet us at @ClerkDev, or join the Clerk Community on Discord.