question about *.web extensions

[sgrund14]

hello! great repo thank you for making :)

have a small question about the files here

where does the *.web.ts come into play? I noticed you have clerk/clerk.web, auth/auth.web, trpc/trpc.web, but the only place you actually use this distinction explicitly is for trpc.web here. are clerk.web and auth.web ever necessary? or does clerks expo client work cross platform?

[chen-rn]

Good question! When you make an import say... to "app/utils/clerk", if you're on web, react-native-web will automatically figure out if there's a .web file and use that instead. So while we don't see a direct import, the web app is using the web auth! ie. Expo client for clerk does not work cross platform!

And the reason why we have a direct import to trpc.web in the example you pointed out is because we are on the nextjs side of things. Without it, I'd imagine it should still work?

[sgrund14]

ah, I see! thank you kindly 🙏 💯