September 4, 2024
The Clerk team has been hard at work shipping new features to help you build secure applications faster. Here’s a rundown of the highlights:
Introducing Custom OAuth Providers
One of our most requested features is now available for all users: Custom OAuth Providers! Starting today, you can add any OpenID Connect (OIDC) compliant OAuth provider to your Clerk application.
- Automatic configuration: Simply provide an OIDC Discovery Endpoint and we’ll take care of the rest.
- Manual configuration: If the desired service does not have a Discovery Endpoint, you can configure the necessary values yourself.
Learn more about how to configure a custom OAuth provider in our docs → , or head over to the Clerk dashboard → and set one up!
iOS SDK Beta
We’re excited to announce the Clerk iOS SDK is in Beta! This SDK is a toolkit that enables developers to integrate Clerk into their native iOS, macOS, and other Apple-native apps using Swift.
- Built with Swift in mind: Harness the declarative approach to user interface on all Apple platforms.
- Async/Await support: Use the latest in Swift networking to make your code as readable and expressive as possible.
- Social Connections and OAuth: Authenticate with your favorite social providers in just a few lines of code.
Try out the Clerk iOS SDK Beta using the new iOS Quickstart available in our docs →.
Other Features, Fixes & Improvements
- Local Credentials in Expo: We’ve expanded our Expo SDK to support the concept of Local Authentication (ex: Face ID, Touch ID, etc).
- Hugging Face SSO Provider: You can now enable your users to sign in with their Hugging Face accounts.
Resources
- Automate Neon schema changes with Drizzle and GitHub Actions by Brian Morrison II
- Build a Full Stack React Native App with Payments by JavaScript Mastery
- Build a Job Portal with Tailwind, Supabase, Clerk, and Shadcn UI by Roadside Coder
- Build a Job Marketplace with React, Tailwindcss, Drizzle ORM, and Clerk by TubeGuruji
- Why We Transitioned to Clerk for Authentication by João Gris at Turso
- RAG with Access Control by Roie Schwaber-Cohen at Pinecone
- Using Clerk authentication in Rust by Sourab Pramanik at Shuttle
- Comparing Clerk Webhooks vs Backend API by Alex Booker
Community Highlight: Per User Database Starter by Turso
Our friends at Turso recently launched the Turso Per User Database Starter. It is an open-source boilerplate repository built with Next.js that uses Clerk to create isolated SQLite databases in Turso for each user that signs into the application.
Simply create a Turso database, configure a Clerk application, and launch it to Vercel!
Get started by checking it out on GitHub →
If you have feedback or suggestions, we want to hear them! Let us know at feedback.clerk.com. For the latest on our product releases, follow @ClerkDev on 𝕏 or join the Clerk Community on Discord.