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Description

Cancelling an email link or enterprise SSO link flow could leave its poller running:

  • Poller.stop() skipped clearing timer ID 0 (the first worker timer), and the next tick restarted polling.
  • A cancel while the link was still being sent was lost once prepare finished. A cancelled-then-restarted flow ran two pollers.

This caused the flaky Mosaic test "continues to the emailed link after confirming the session": pollers leaked from earlier tests sent requests the target test caught.

Checklist

  • pnpm test runs as expected. (targeted: shared poller, clerk-js resources, Mosaic user-profile-email-section)
  • pnpm build runs as expected. (pnpm turbo build --filter=@clerk/mosaic...)
  • (If applicable) JSDoc comments have been added or updated for any package exports
  • (If applicable) Documentation has been updated

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  • 🐛 Bug fix
  • 🌟 New feature
  • 🔨 Breaking change
  • 📖 Refactoring / dependency upgrade / documentation
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The Poller now preserves its stopped state between polling callbacks and resets its timer after stopping. Email-link and enterprise SSO flows track start attempts, so cancelled or superseded starts do not begin polling. New tests cover Poller stop and restart behavior, flow cancellation and restart timing, and dismissal of the email verification dialog.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Suggested reviewers: tmilewski, austincalvelage

Merge Risk: Low · up to 7bbce

The change stops email link polling after cancellation in the common paths. Two edge cases remain: a cancelled flow can leave a background Worker running, and a cancel-then-restart during a pending check can occasionally stop the new attempt. Both are narrow and worth fixing, but neither should block merge.

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Title check Passed The title names the main change: stopping email link polling after a flow is cancelled. The raw summary shows the PR adds attempt tracking to createEmailLinkFlow and createEnterpriseSSOLinkFlow, and f…
Description check Passed The description states the bug: cancelling an email link or enterprise SSO link flow left its poller running. It names the two causes, Poller.stop() skipping timer ID 0 and a cancel during prepare bei…
Docstring Coverage Passed Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…
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The title names the main change: stopping email link polling after a flow is cancelled. The raw summary shows the PR adds attempt tracking to createEmailLinkFlow and createEnterpriseSSOLinkFlow, and fixes Poller.stop() for timer ID 0, which supports the title. The title uses the conventional fix(clerk-js) prefix and is 66 characters, within a typical limit.

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The description states the bug: cancelling an email link or enterprise SSO link flow left its poller running. It names the two causes, Poller.stop() skipping timer ID 0 and a cancel during prepare being lost. It also lists the tests run and the checklist. This directly describes the changeset.

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Review comments at @packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/EmailAddress.ts:
- Around line 65-67: In the reload() completion handlers, check whether current
still matches attempt before stopping the poller or settling the promise, and
ignore stale success and error results. Apply the same guard to the Enterprise
SSO, SignIn, and SignUp flows.

Review comments at
@packages/mosaic/src/features/user-profile/user-profile-email-section/__tests__/user-profile-email-section.feature.test.tsx:
- Line 195: In the email-section cancellation test, replace the fixed 100 ms
wait with controlled time: wait for the first released GET/reload to complete,
then dismiss the section and advance the clock to verify that no subsequent poll
starts. Ensure the assertion exercises timer cancellation after the Poller has
had a chance to schedule its next timer.

Review comments at @packages/shared/src/poller.ts:
- Line 26: Update the Poller stop function so workerTimers.cleanup() runs on
every stop(), including when timerId is undefined. Keep clearing and resetting
timerId conditional on its being defined, and preserve the stopped state update.

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  • packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/SignUp.ts
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if (current !== attempt) {
return;
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Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift

Supported by static analysis

Script executed:

sed -n 40,150p packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/EmailAddress.ts
sed -n 340,410p packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/SignIn.ts
sed -n 250,305p packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/SignUp.ts
cat packages/shared/src/poller.ts

Repository: clerk/javascript

Length of output: 8273


Script executed:

set -o pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- current line-numbered flow blocks ---'
nl -ba packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/EmailAddress.ts | sed -n '52,135p'
nl -ba packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/SignIn.ts | sed -n '350,405p'
nl -ba packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/SignUp.ts | sed -n '265,310p'
printf '%s\n' '--- merge-base flow blocks ---'
git show afe5725a5a265e49b158266fb33b6033a63a6df5:packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/EmailAddress.ts | nl -ba | sed -n '52,135p'
git show afe5725a5a265e49b158266fb33b6033a63a6df5:packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/SignIn.ts | nl -ba | sed -n '350,405p'
git show afe5725a5a265e49b158266fb33b6033a63a6df5:packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/SignUp.ts | nl -ba | sed -n '265,310p'
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant diff ---'
git diff --unified=12 afe5725a5a265e49b158266fb33b6033a63a6df5 7bbce8784edc9f8a87a5ac0a13e0d4f28da3b841 -- packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/EmailAddress.ts packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/SignIn.ts packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/SignUp.ts packages/shared/src/poller.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- current flow tests mentioning cancel/restart ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.{ts,tsx}' -e 'cancelEmailLinkFlow' -e 'cancelEnterpriseSSOLinkFlow' -e 'restart' packages/clerk-js/src packages/shared/src || test "$?" -eq 1

Repository: clerk/javascript

Length of output: 28013


Guard stale reload() completions before stopping or settling the flow.

If cancellation occurs while an attempt’s reload() is pending, a restarted attempt can reuse the same Poller. The earlier completion can call stop() and stop the restarted poller, while the restarted promise remains pending. Check current !== attempt inside each reload() completion and error handler before stopping or settling the flow. Apply the same change to the Enterprise SSO, SignIn, and SignUp flows.

This race also existed before this PR, so it is not newly introduced. The current attempt guard does not prevent it.

Suggested fix
         void run(() => {
           return this.reload()
             .then(res => {
+              if (current !== attempt) {
+                return;
+              }
               if (res.verification.status === 'verified') {
                 stop();
                 resolve(res);
               }
             })
             .catch(err => {
+              if (current !== attempt) {
+                return;
+              }
               stop();
               reject(err);
             });
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Review comment at @packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/EmailAddress.ts around
lines 65 - 67:
In the reload() completion handlers, check whether current still matches attempt
before stopping the poller or settling the promise, and ignore stale success and
error results. Apply the same guard to the Enterprise SSO, SignIn, and SignUp
flows.

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const dialog = await screen.findByRole('dialog', { name: 'Verify your email' });
await waitFor(() => expect(poll.requests).toHaveLength(1));
poll.release();
await act(() => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 100)));

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Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Heavy lift

Synchronize the first poll before testing cancellation.

The fixed 100 ms wait does not prove that the released GET has completed. On a slow run, dismissal can stop the Poller before it schedules its next timer; the final assertion can then pass without testing timer cancellation. Wait for the first reload to complete, then use a controlled clock to check whether another poll starts. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

As per coding guidelines, Mosaic feature tests must “Control time instead of waiting it out.”

Also applies to: 199-199

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Review comment at
@packages/mosaic/src/features/user-profile/user-profile-email-section/__tests__/user-profile-email-section.feature.test.tsx
at line 195:
In the email-section cancellation test, replace the fixed 100 ms wait with
controlled time: wait for the first released GET/reload to complete, then
dismiss the section and advance the clock to verify that no subsequent poll
starts. Ensure the assertion exercises timer cancellation after the Poller has
had a chance to schedule its next timer.

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Source: Coding guidelines


const stop: PollerStop = () => {
if (timerId) {
if (timerId !== undefined) {

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Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Supported by static analysis

Script executed:

cat packages/shared/src/poller.ts
cat packages/shared/src/workerTimers/createWorkerTimers.ts
git diff afe5725a5a265e49b158266fb33b6033a63a6df5 7bbce8784edc9f8a87a5ac0a13e0d4f28da3b841 -- packages/shared/src/poller.ts

Repository: clerk/javascript

Length of output: 4997


Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' --glob '*.tsx' -e 'createPoller' -e 'Poller(' -e 'createEmailLinkFlow' -e 'createEnterpriseSSOLinkFlow' packages/clerk-js/src packages/shared/src || test "$?" -eq 1

Repository: clerk/javascript

Length of output: 4529


Call cleanup() even when no timer ID exists.

Poller() creates its Worker during construction, and each email link flow constructs a Poller when it is created. timerId is set only after the first poll callback completes. If stop() runs before that point, the timerId check skips cleanup(), so the Worker keeps running. Call cleanup() on every stop(), so the Worker terminates in every case.

🐛 Suggested fix
--- "a/packages/shared/src/poller.ts"
+++ "b/packages/shared/src/poller.ts"
@@ -22,14 +22,14 @@
   let timerId: number | undefined;
   let stopped = false;
 
   const stop: PollerStop = () => {
     if (timerId !== undefined) {
       workerTimers.clearTimeout(timerId);
-      workerTimers.cleanup();
       timerId = undefined;
     }
+    workerTimers.cleanup();
     stopped = true;
   };
 
   const run: PollerRun = async cb => {
     stopped = false;
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Review comment at @packages/shared/src/poller.ts at line 26:
Update the Poller stop function so workerTimers.cleanup() runs on every stop(),
including when timerId is undefined. Keep clearing and resetting timerId
conditional on its being defined, and preserve the stopped state update.

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