How To Add An Onboarding Flow For Your Application
- Roy Anger tl;dr: Leverage Clerk’s customizable session tokens, publicMetadata and Next’s Middleware to create a robust onboarding experience within a few lines of code.featured in #535
Build A Waitlist With Clerk User Metadata
- Brian Morrison tl;dr: Discover how to implement a waitlist in your app using Clerk's user metadata, including setting up an admin dashboard for efficient user access management. This guide simplifies controlling user entry and enhances your app's onboarding workflow.featured in #534
How To Make Complex Chrome Extensions: A Zero Gravity Guide
- Nina Torgunakova Travis Turner tl;dr: “Building a complex browser extension isn’t exactly easy—especially for first-timers or folks who feel unsure of what they’re doing! Not to worry. We’ll show you the essentials for building a full-featured Chrome extension using a real example!”featured in #534
The Developer's Guide To RBAC: Part I
tl;dr: As SaaS products scale, supporting authorization becomes critical, requiring solutions like fine-grained access control (FGA) to meet complex enterprise needs. This guide covers the fundamentals of role-based access control (RBAC) and its limitations, trade-offs to consider when transitioning to FGA, and implementation details from companies like Figma and Carta that built these systems in-housefeatured in #533
Build A Team-Based Task Manager
- Brian Morrison tl;dr: This tutorial demonstrates practical steps for implementing scalable, team-oriented solutions in modern web applications. It guides you through leveraging Clerk's Organizations feature alongside Next.js and Neon to develop a secure, team-based task manager. The tutorial offers a comprehensive approach to creating a multi-tenant application that isolates tasks by team, ensuring robust user role management and secure authentication.featured in #532
Why Build When You Can Deploy Speech AI Instantly
- Kelsey Foster tl;dr: Not sure whether to build or buy an AI speech recognition system? Our comprehensive guide breaks down the key considerations, from accuracy and internal resources to speed of iteration and data security.featured in #531
Building A Hybrid Sign-Up / Subscribe Form With Stripe Elements
- Brian Morrison tl;dr: A practical guide on how to use custom flows, webhooks, and user metadata to build a single form that automatically subscribes new users using Stripe Elementfeatured in #530
Build vs Buy: A Guide For Notification Systems
- Sam Seely tl;dr: A complete guide for what to consider if you're evaluating whether to build your own notification system or use a third-party vendor.featured in #525
A Guide To Organization Modeling In Authentication
tl;dr: Organization modeling is a crucial part of building authentication and authorization into applications. However, once SSO and various user-organization relationships are thrown into the mix, the logic can become complex to manage. For developers building this in-house, there are important nuances and implementation details to consider.featured in #524
The Developer's Guide To Single Sign-On (SSO)
tl;dr: If you want more people using your product, the easiest place to start is making it easier to actually sign up. Adding SSO to your app will help you land those larger enterprise deals and remove the signup friction that keeps causing your visitors to drop off. For modern developers though, the world of XML, SOAP, and OASIS standards can be opaque. This guide explains what SSO is, why it’s important, and best practices for getting it up, running, and integrated with your app.featured in #522