Changelog August 18, 2023

Nick Parsons

This week we shipped a feature to block sign ups using email subaddressing, new email templates for magic links, and support for repo based config with Remix!

🚫 Block Email Subaddresses

To prevent users from creating multiple accounts, Clerk now offers the ability to block sign-ups that attempt to use email subaddressing aliases. By enabling this new setting, users will be prohibited from signing up with emails that append tags after the base username.

This helps prevent emails like jane@company.com and jane+extra@company.com from being treated as unique addresses, closing an easy workaround for creating multiple accounts and improving integrity across user sign-ups.

The feature can be configured under Settings → User & Authentication → Restrictions in the Clerk Dashboard.

✨ Other Fixes & Improvements

Introduced three distinct email templates for Sign In, Sign Up, and Email Verification when sending Magic Links
Implemented support for repo-based config with Remix
Added support for phpass password hashing when using the CreateUser endpoint

📅 Events

The Clerk team was excited to attend React Rally this week, and it did not disappoint! We had a Waffle Truck, a 5ft Clerk Jenga, Mario Kart, and, of course, a whole bunch of SWAG 🎁

We hope that you were able to attend and connect with us, as it was not an event to be missed; if not, we can’t wait to see you next year!

📚 Resources

React Native Authentication with Expo Router & Clerk: Discover how to enhance the security of your React Native app with Expo Router v2 and Clerk for authentication and user management. Follow the step-by-step tutorial on Galaxies.dev or watch the video tutorial on YouTube.
AI-Town: Dive into the world of AI simulation with AI-Town, a deployable JS starter kit that allows you to customize your own AI simulation, where AI characters live, chat, and socialize. This kit is built with Convex, Pinecone, Replicate, OpenAI, Fly.io, and Clerk for authentication.
How We Roll – Chapter 10: Roundup: In this final chapter of the "How We Roll" series, Dev Agrawal provides a summary of the topics discussed throughout the series.
Nuxt + Clerk: Check out this example app by Robert Soriano that demonstrates how to integrate Clerk with Nuxt using the h3-clerk middleware.

🙌 Community Shoutouts

We’re thrilled to sponsor Next.js Boilerplate, a comprehensive starter kit that comes pre-configured with Clerk for authentication, and features such as type checking, linter, code formatting, unit testing, E2E testing, Storybook, Bundler Analyzer, Sitemap, Tailwind CSS, and much more.
Congratulations to the team at Investor Radar on their recent launch. Investor Radar is a platform for startups or individuals to get connected with the investor of their dreams, and uses Clerk for authentication.
Shoutout to Robert Soriano for seamlessly integrating Clerk with Vue! His work showcases the power of Clerk's authentication and user management in Vue. Check out the integration at vue-clerk.vercel.app.
A big thank you to Darren Baldwin for open sourcing clerk-rs, an unofficial Rust SDK for Clerk. The SDK just crossed 1.2k+ downloads on crates.io. Thank you for contributing to the Clerk community!

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.