October 20, 2023
This week, we released an all-new changelog, proxying for Clerk’s frontend API, coalescing in your JWT templates, and upgraded TLS certificates for the frontend API and accounts domains!
New changelog + much more
Up until now, we've been using our blog to share regular updates about the latest Clerk feature releases, but that ends today. Going forward we'll use the all-new Clerk changelog to keep you up-to-date with our latest releases. Come for the feature updates, stay for the scrolling comet tail in the sidebar.
Follow along with our latest releases at clerk.com/changelog.
Proxying Clerk's Frontend API
Do you dream about setting up a domain within Clerk but you're unable to use CNAMEs or want more control over your integration (Weird dream buddy BUT we're not judging)? We're here to make those dreams a reality with our new proxying capability for our Frontend API. Configure your proxy of choice (like NGINX) to directly talk to our Frontend API and that's it.
This is a particularly useful feature for folks using our multi-domain functionality, as you now don't need to set up DNS records for each of your satellite domains. Head to the docs to learn about more using a proxy in your project – and don't continue to let your dreams be dreams. Clerk believes in you.
Coalescing in your JWT Templates
This next one is likely a crowd pleaser... You're now able to have fallback conditions right inside of your JWT Templates. This reduces the amount of code you have to maintain inside your apps, while also making your templates simpler and more concise. Along with interpolation that was released a few months ago, this was one of the most commonly requested features in JWT Templates.
Have a read through of our JWT Template docs to learn more.
Some scheduled maintenance
Our primary database is scheduled for routine maintenance on Tuesday, 23/10/23, at 06:00 AM UTC. The maintenance is expected to last 60 seconds or less. Follow along at status.clerk.com
Other Fixes & improvements
- We've upgraded our TLS certificates for the Frontend API and Accounts domains to version 1.2
Events
Clerk is bringing together the Javascript ecosystem on Wednesday 10/25 in San Francisco to ideate, collaborate, and hack on developer tools! Bring your laptop, and come ready to code! We want this to feel like a company hackathon, except your "company" is the broader Javascript ecosystem.
So far, developers from Bun, Convex, Cloudflare, Vercel, Inngest, TanStack, Svix, Langchain, Replay, and Clerk have registered. If you’re a library, framework, or runtime developer, we welcome you to register here →
Resources
- Sync User Data Between Clerk & PlanetScale: Learn how to sync user data from a Clerk project into your PlanetScale MySQL database with webhooks using Netlify and Netlify Functions.
- Fullstack Notion Clone with Next.js, Convex, Clerk & Tailwind: Learn how to build an end-to-end Notion clone with a proper Notion-style editor, cover images, nested documents, publishing, and real-time in this 8 hour tutorial on the Code with Antonio YouTube channel.
- How to Sync Clerk Users to MongoDB via Webhooks: Learn how to sync user data between Clerk and MongoDB using webhooks in this step-by-step guide written by Amrasakpare Lawrence.
- Clerk JWT Authentication with NestJS + Passport for REST & GraphQL: Learn how to implement manual JWT verification with Clerk, Passport and Nest.js in this tutorial by Roberto Yamanaka.
Community Shoutouts
- Congrats to the team at Instant Singer, an AI-powered site that swaps out any singer's voice with your own, keeping the same inflections of the original singer – all from the browser! They’re using Clerk for auth and it’s free to get started!
- Big shoutout to Nick Pappageorge on his launch of FWD Audio. FWD turns your favorite blogs, newsletters, and news sources into podcast-quality episodes. Stop drowning in content and give it a try for yourself.
- Kodos to Veljko Sekulic, who recently launched Interview Mate using Clerk for auth. Interview Mate is a helpful assistant that makes it easy for you to practice mock interviews.
Stay tuned for future updates. If you have feedback or suggestions tweet us at @ClerkDev, or join the Clerk Community on Discord.