fix(clerk-js): ignore touch errors on page focus

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Description

These errors were previously both unhandled and uncaught, now they are just intentionally unhandled. The page is usually in a good enough state to recover gracefully, but the uncaught errors led to noise in the browser console and error tracking tools which we now avoid.

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• 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

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Latest commit: a1b7c94

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This PR includes changesets to release 4 packages

Name	Type
@clerk/clerk-js	Patch
@clerk/chrome-extension	Patch
@clerk/electron	Patch
@clerk/expo	Patch

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Walkthrough

When the page regains focus, session-touch failures are now caught and logged as warnings. Tests cover rejected touch promises, 401 responses, and the touchSession: false setting. A patch changeset documents the change.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Suggested reviewers: wobsoriano

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a1b7c

A failed follow-up request after a 401 focus touch can still produce an unhandled error. Include that request in the handled promise chain before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: ignoring touch errors that occur when the page regains focus.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the page-focus touch errors, their previous impact, and the intended reduction of browser-console and error-tracking noise.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 2…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Summary

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

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@clerk/ui

Current version: 1.36.0
Recommended bump: MINOR → 1.37.0

Subpath ./themes/experimental

🟡 Non-breaking Changes (1)

Modified: createTheme

// ... 4 unchanged lines elided ...
      theme: InternalTheme;
    }) => Elements);
    theme?: (BaseTheme | BaseTheme[]) | undefined;
-   options?: import("@clerk/ui/internal").Options | undefined;
-   variables?: import("@clerk/ui/internal").Variables | undefined;
-   captcha?: import("@clerk/ui/internal").CaptchaAppearanceOptions | undefined;
+   options?: Options | undefined;
+   variables?: Variables | undefined;
+   captcha?: CaptchaAppearanceOptions | undefined;
    cssLayerName?: string | undefined;
  }

Static analyzer: Breaking change in function createTheme: Return type changed: {__type:"prebuilt_appearance";name?:string;elements?:!unknown|((params:{theme:import("@clerk/ui").~InternalTheme;})=>!unknown);theme?:(!unknown|!unknown[])|undefined;options?:import("@clerk/ui/internal").Options|undefined;variables?:import("@clerk/ui/internal").Variables|undefined;captcha?:import("@clerk/ui/internal").CaptchaAppearanceOptions|undefined;cssLayerName?:string|undefined;} → {__type:"prebuilt_appearance";name?:string;elements?:((params:{theme:import("@clerk/ui").~InternalTheme;})=>import("@clerk/ui").~Elements)|import("@clerk/ui").~Elements;theme?:(import("@clerk/ui").~BaseTheme|import("@clerk/ui").~BaseTheme[])|undefined;options?:import("@clerk/ui").~Options|undefined;variables?:import("@clerk/ui").~Variables|undefined;captcha?:import("@clerk/ui").~CaptchaAppearanceOptions|undefined;cssLayerName?:string|undefined;}

🤖 AI review (reclassified as non-breaking) (85%): The before and after snippets show structurally identical return types; the only difference is that Options, Variables, and CaptchaAppearanceOptions were previously imported from @clerk/ui/internal (a specifier with deterministic: false / packageNotFound: true, meaning it was non-resolvable) and are now imported from the public @clerk/ui entry point. Per rule 13, swapping a non-resolvable specifier for a resolvable one is a repair, not a break — the old types were never safely consumable by well-typed consumers.

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🟠 Major · Include unauthenticated handling in the focus-touch promise chain. · clerk.ts:3708

packages/clerk-js/src/core/clerk.ts:3708
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Include unauthenticated handling in the focus-touch promise chain.

If a focus touch returns 401, #touchCurrentSession starts handleUnauthenticated() without awaiting it. If the subsequent client fetch fails, handleUnauthenticated() rejects outside the catch added at Line 3665. The browser can still report an unhandled rejection. Await or return that promise so the focus handler can catch its failure.

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Review comment at @packages/clerk-js/src/core/clerk.ts at line 3708:
Update #touchCurrentSession so it awaits or returns the handleUnauthenticated()
promise when a focus touch returns 401, keeping the rejection within the focus
handler’s existing catch path.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @packages/clerk-js/src/core/__tests__/clerk.test.ts:
- Line 4073: Replace the two any event annotations in the test harness with the
appropriate focus and message event types, and add explicit void return types to
firePageFocus, recordWindowListener, and onUnhandledRejection.
- Around line 4071-4183: Update the rejected-focus test in the “page focus
session touch” suite to spy on debugLogger.warn and assert it logs the
focus-touch failure with the expected error details and clerk context. Restore
the spy in the existing finally block so it cannot affect other tests.

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Outside diff comments:
Review comments at @packages/clerk-js/src/core/clerk.ts:
- Line 3708: Update #touchCurrentSession so it awaits or returns the
handleUnauthenticated() promise when a focus touch returns 401, keeping the
rejection within the focus handler’s existing catch path.

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Coderabbit found an interesting thing outside the diff, namely that we are calling void this.handleUnauthenticated() without catching which could also lead to uncaught errors. This seems like an issue we have in a bunch of places in the codebase though and unrelated to the issue at hand so not touching here.