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Description

When an Electron app supplied no routerPush/routerReplace, clerk-js fell back to a
window.location navigation. Additional sign-in/up steps target the internal component router
(/CLERK-ROUTER/VIRTUAL/...), and a renderer served from a custom scheme would often result in navigation reloading the whole renderer, unmounting Clerk and breaking the auth flow.

This PR makes ClerkProvider always supply a routerPush/routerReplace:

  • internal virtual routers are now absorbed.
  • Real destinations go to the application's router when one is provided, otherwise fall back to
    host navigation, preserving current behavior for apps that supply no router.

isVirtualRouterPath moves to @clerk/shared so @clerk/electron and @clerk/ui share one
definition; @clerk/ui re-exports VIRTUAL_ROUTER_BASE_PATH unchanged.

The electron-vite integration template passed no-op router functions to work around this, which
also swallowed real destinations. Those are replaced with router functions wired to
history.pushState/replaceState, and the suite now asserts that no
clerk:beforeunload fires during sign-in, as that event is dispatched immediately before clerk-js
assigns window.location.

When sign-in ran over the native OAuth transport, a transfer to sign-up navigated with hash-style
step URLs (<sign-up-url>#/continue) that the in-place component router resolves by pathname only,
so the hash was dropped and the transferred sign-up landed on the start step. Submitting that form
created a fresh sign-up without the verified external account. The transport callback params now use
path-form step URLs (…/sign-up/continue, or create/continue in the combined flow), matching the
treatment the sign-in-side URLs already received.

Checklist

  • pnpm test runs as expected.
  • pnpm build runs as expected.
  • (If applicable) JSDoc comments have been added or updated for any package exports
  • (If applicable) Documentation has been updated

Type of change

  • 🐛 Bug fix
  • 🌟 New feature
  • 🔨 Breaking change
  • 📖 Refactoring / dependency upgrade / documentation
  • other:

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🦋 Changeset detected

Latest commit: 2909850

The changes in this PR will be included in the next version bump.

This PR includes changesets to release 23 packages
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@clerk/electron Patch
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@clerk/ui Patch
@clerk/astro Patch
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@clerk/clerk-js Patch
@clerk/expo-passkeys Patch
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Generated by Break Check on 2026-08-23T11:21:25.267Z

Summary

Metric Count
Packages analyzed 19
Packages with changes 1
🔴 Breaking changes 0
🟡 Non-breaking changes 0
🟢 Additions 2

@clerk/shared

Current version: 4.29.3
Recommended bump: MINOR → 4.30.0

Subpath ./internal/clerk-js/url

🟢 Additions (2)

Added: isVirtualRouterPath
+ isVirtualRouterPath: (to: string) => boolean

Added function isVirtualRouterPath

Added: VIRTUAL_ROUTER_BASE_PATH
+ VIRTUAL_ROUTER_BASE_PATH = "CLERK-ROUTER/VIRTUAL"

Added variable VIRTUAL_ROUTER_BASE_PATH


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ClerkProvider keeps Electron navigation in the renderer by absorbing virtual-router paths and routing real destinations through the application router or host navigation. Shared virtual-router detection is centralized in the URL module. OAuth transfer callbacks now generate normalized sign-up step URLs for standard, virtual, and combined flows. Unit and integration tests cover both changes.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 29098

The PR keeps Electron authentication navigation inside the renderer and fixes transferred sign-up step URLs. It is mergeable with owner awareness of a remaining test-quality issue: one test bypasses the context type contract with an any cast, which could weaken validation of future changes.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely summarizes the primary change: keeping Clerk navigation inside the Electron renderer.
Description check ✅ Passed The description accurately explains the Electron navigation fix, shared routing changes, OAuth URL fix, and related tests.

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