Add mosaic routing design doc by Ephem · Pull Request #10490 · clerk/javascript

Ephem · 2026-10-28T15:25:54Z

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Preview markdown: /docs/internal/routing.md

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packages/mosaic/docs/internals/routing.md

Walkthrough

Adds an internal Mosaic routing document. It describes existing navigation and session behavior, lists rendering and compatibility constraints, and outlines proposed routing state, location sources, typed route definitions, and framework adapters. It also records open questions and compares the proposal with PR #9843. The changeset file contains two YAML delimiters without release metadata or a description.

Priority: Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Possibly related PRs

clerk/javascript#10467: Tests switcher actions that resolve navigation URLs, which the routing document discusses as host-page navigation.
clerk/javascript#10218: Adds OAuth redirect and browser-history restoration behavior, related to the document’s discussion of OAuth exits and return locations.

Suggested reviewers: austincalvelage, alexcarpenter

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 026a1

This change adds an internal design document with no runtime impact today. The document leaves a few routing contracts undefined, and an implementation built from it could miss modal-close behavior, SSR handling, or OAuth redirect roles. Clarify these in the document before implementation starts. Merging as-is carries little risk.

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Title check		The title "Add mosaic routing design doc" matches the main change. The PR adds packages/mosaic/docs/internals/routing.md, a routing design document, and the changeset file is minor. The title is speci…
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Review comments at @packages/mosaic/docs/internals/routing.md:
- Around line 124-126: Clarify the no-adapter behavior in the routing
documentation: state that server-side rendering requires an adapter, or define a
server-safe fallback for MosaicProvider when no adapter is supplied. Keep the
documented window fallback for client rendering explicit.
- Line 94: Update the routing documentation around `useMosaicRouter.navigate` to
preserve the modal-close side effect when writes use an adapter or
`history.pushState`; ensure the implementation notifies navigation listeners or
otherwise closes modals before adopting this write path.
- Line 20: Update the third-party exit description to distinguish OAuth and SAML
callback routing via redirectUrl from the post-callback destination via
redirectUrlComplete; keep both values in the exit contract without requiring the
host adapter to receive them.
- Around line 39-46: Update the routing documentation around the `setActive`
navigation flow to clarify that waiting for navigation to finish requires
`RouterFn` to return a completion promise; a synchronous return may let
`Clerk.navigate` resolve and Session B be published before asynchronous
navigation completes. Label the existing page sequence as the
awaitable-navigation case.

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coderabbitai · 2026-10-28T15:35:30Z

+  - For `virtual` this is a value in memory
+- Use framework adapter state over `window` if it exists
+  - So our segment and the host page change in the same commit
+- Writes go through the adapter if there is one, otherwise `history.pushState`


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set -eu printf '%s\n' '--- PR diff for routing document ---' git diff --no-ext-diff --unified=30 e2d9bf9a774a11a0855976e370d0ec94fae69398 026a1adada61edec85bf57511a99529ce4307758 -- packages/mosaic/docs/internals/routing.md printf '%s\n' '--- routing document references ---' rg -n -F -e 'clerk.navigate' -e 'modal' -e 'adapter' -e 'history.pushState' packages/mosaic/docs/internals/routing.md || true printf '%s\n' '--- useMosaicRouter definitions and calls ---' rg -n -F -e 'useMosaicRouter' -e 'clerk.navigate' packages/mosaic packages/clerk-js packages/react packages/shared || true printf '%s\n' '--- modal-close/navigation source candidates ---' rg -n -F -e 'closeModals' -e 'close modals' -e 'closeModal' -e 'modal' packages/mosaic/src packages/clerk-js/src | head -n 240 || true

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set -eu printf '%s\n' '--- use-mosaic-router.ts ---' nl -ba packages/mosaic/src/hooks/use-mosaic-router.ts printf '%s\n' '--- clerk navigation implementation ---' sed -n '2160,2245p' packages/clerk-js/src/core/clerk.ts | nl -ba -v2160 printf '%s\n' '--- navigation listener declarations and registrations ---' rg -n -F -e 'addNavigationListener' -e 'navigationListeners' -e 'navigate(' -e 'notifyNavigation' packages/clerk-js/src/core packages/clerk-js/src | head -n 180 || true printf '%s\n' '--- IsomorphicClerk navigate binding ---' rg -n -F -e 'navigate = ' -e 'navigate(' packages/react/src packages/clerk-js/src | head -n 160 || true

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Preserve the clerk.navigate modal-close side effect.

useMosaicRouter.navigate delegates to clerk.navigate, which fires navigation listeners that close modals. The proposed adapter and history.pushState writes bypass that call. Define an equivalent notification or close operation before adopting this write path.

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feat(mosaic): list the active organization's pages in UserProfile #10491

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