Most auth bugs do not come from the login button.
They show up after login:
a user is created in Clerk but not in your app database
a session expires while your UI still thinks the user is active
a webhook arrives late or twice
Login is the easy part. Clerk integrations also need user lifecycle, session expiry, webhook verification, and app-state reconciliation.
Most auth bugs do not come from the login button.
They show up after login:
a user is created in Clerk but not in your app database
a session expires while your UI still thinks the user is active
a webhook arrives late or twice

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