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feat(expo): add useAuthenticatedWebView for signed-in WebViews - #10767
Today, when a signed-in Expo app shows a web page in a WebView, such as billing or account settings, the user lands signed out and has to sign in again. Apps either make users sign in twice or keep those pages native. This PR signs the user in on the page. Right before the WebView loads, the SDK asks FAPI for a one-time sign-in URL that works for 60 seconds. FAPI serves this behind the per-instance session_transfers flag.
import{useAuthenticatedWebView}from'@clerk/expo/native-to-web';constweb=useAuthenticatedWebView({destination: 'https://app.example.com/billing'});// web.status is 'preparing', 'ready', 'signed-out' or 'error'{web.webViewProps&&<WebView{...web.webViewProps}/>}
prepareSessionTransfer in @clerk/expo/native-to-web/advanced returns the URL for apps that open it some other way. The system browser API is in the next PR in this stack, #10825.
What to look at:
Status.status stays preparing while the WebView shows Clerk's sign-in page, so the app can keep its own loading overlay up. The hook checks every navigation for __clerk_status=session_transfer_failed. After a failure it returns no webViewProps, so a previous user's page never shows.
One URL per WebView. A remount or Strict Mode reuses a URL that no WebView has loaded yet, so the screen doesn't mint twice. Two WebViews never share one. A mint that hangs fails after 20 seconds, and retry() always mints a new URL.
First commit. It moves the FAPI request helpers out of utils/hostedAuth.ts so session transfers can share them. Hosted auth behaves the same.
Tested with an Expo SDK 58 app on a dev instance with the flag on, on an iOS 27 simulator and an Android API 36 emulator:
Path
iOS
Android
useAuthenticatedWebView
Signed in
Signed in
WebView mounted 65 s after mint
expired, retry() signs in
expired, retry() signs in
On iOS, the sign-in page shows for about one frame before the destination paints. Android doesn't do this.
Checklist
pnpm test runs as expected.
pnpm build runs as expected.
(If applicable) JSDoc comments have been added or updated for any package exports
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Walkthrough
The change adds session-transfer preparation and error APIs for Expo apps. The useAuthenticatedWebView hook prepares a transfer URL and exposes WebView props and status. Navigation events update the hook state. The change also adds shared FAPI response helpers, moves Expo app-identifier lookup into a utility, and uses the shared helpers in hosted authentication. Package exports, a WebView dependency, changeset documentation, and type-level test configuration are added.
The new authenticated WebView hook might drop its loading overlay early if an intermediate page finishes loading outside the redeem path. The author reports this cannot happen through the normal redeem flow, and the impact is limited to one screen. Merge risk is low.
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The title names the main change: adding useAuthenticatedWebView to @clerk/expo for signed-in WebViews. The changeset, hook, session transfer logic, and exports all match this. The title follows the co…
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The description explains the problem (users must sign in again in WebViews), shows the useAuthenticatedWebView usage, covers prepareSessionTransfer, status behavior, URL reuse, a refactor of FAPI help…
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The title names the main change: adding useAuthenticatedWebView to @clerk/expo for signed-in WebViews. The changeset, hook, session transfer logic, and exports all match this. The title follows the conventional commit style and is 62 characters long.
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The description explains the problem (users must sign in again in WebViews), shows the useAuthenticatedWebView usage, covers prepareSessionTransfer, status behavior, URL reuse, a refactor of FAPI helpers, and test results. It relates directly to the changeset.
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Under Strict Mode one link was minted; the hook stayed preparing on Clerk's sign-in page and turned ready once the destination loaded signed in.
Also checked · 5 match · 3 not run
Real FAPI accepts the request shape · Blocked Signed in on iOS WebView and Safari · Blocked Signed in on Android WebView and Chrome · Blocked Redeem failure hides page; retry signs in Remount reuses URL, two WebViews don't Hung mint fails after 20 s Hosted auth behaves the same Back to an earlier destination mints anew
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Proof planned 1 claim but was not able to run it:
Needs the iOS Simulator
Signed in on iOS WebView and Safari
Proof on a7c32360 (from 71bc4461) · mocked: Clerk Frontend API (session_transfers) (setting session_transfers), react-native-webview (No iOS Simulator or Android emulator in the Linux sandbox; a headless Chromium p...) · not run: iOS Simulator (Linux sandbox has no macOS or Xcode), Android emulator (Sandbox lacks Java and the Android SDK needed for the expo-native harness) · Did Proof get it right? Yes · No
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Add @clerk/expo/native-to-web. useAuthenticatedWebView mints a one-time
session transfer URL and returns props for a react-native-webview
WebView, so the destination page loads with the native user signed in.
prepareSessionTransfer in @clerk/expo/native-to-web/advanced returns the
URL for apps that present it themselves.
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feat(expo): add native-to-web session transfer APIs
feat(expo): add useAuthenticatedWebView for signed-in WebViews
Nov 14, 2026
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Review comments at @packages/expo/package.json:
- Line 3: Update the version field in the Expo package metadata to 4.16.1 so the
pending minor changeset advances from the latest recorded release.
Review comments at @packages/expo/src/native-to-web/useAuthenticatedWebView.ts:
- Line 187: Update the request identity in the useAuthenticatedWebView flow to
include an activation value that changes when the destination or session
activates, so returning to a previous destination cannot reuse its
settledRequestId. Keep that value stable across Strict Mode effect replay within
the same activation, preserving the guard’s behavior of skipping duplicate work
for that activation.
Review comments at @packages/expo/src/native-to-web/webViewNavigation.ts:
- Line 37: Update judgeNavigation to receive the destination and return ready
after load-end only when the loaded URL matches the destination’s origin and
pathname. Keep other successful loads pending, and update the judgeNavigation
tests to cover destination and non-destination load-end events.
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…earlier destination
Going from destination A to B and back to A before B's mint arrived reused A's settled request ID, so the hook handed the WebView A's already-redeemed URL and stopped reporting navigation verdicts. Count target changes into the request ID so each activation gets its own.
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Description
Today, when a signed-in Expo app shows a web page in a WebView, such as billing or account settings, the user lands signed out and has to sign in again. Apps either make users sign in twice or keep those pages native. This PR signs the user in on the page. Right before the WebView loads, the SDK asks FAPI for a one-time sign-in URL that works for 60 seconds. FAPI serves this behind the per-instance
session_transfersflag.prepareSessionTransferin@clerk/expo/native-to-web/advancedreturns the URL for apps that open it some other way. The system browser API is in the next PR in this stack, #10825.What to look at:
statusstayspreparingwhile the WebView shows Clerk's sign-in page, so the app can keep its own loading overlay up. The hook checks every navigation for__clerk_status=session_transfer_failed. After a failure it returns nowebViewProps, so a previous user's page never shows.retry()always mints a new URL.utils/hostedAuth.tsso session transfers can share them. Hosted auth behaves the same.Tested with an Expo SDK 58 app on a dev instance with the flag on, on an iOS 27 simulator and an Android API 36 emulator:
useAuthenticatedWebViewexpired,retry()signs inexpired,retry()signs inOn iOS, the sign-in page shows for about one frame before the destination paints. Android doesn't do this.
Checklist
pnpm testruns as expected.pnpm buildruns as expected.Type of change
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