Official docs outline
15 sections- Core concepts
Users, sessions, organizations and instances.
- How Clerk works
Clerk architecture including cookies, tokens and frontend and backend APIs.
- Sign-up and sign-in options
Configuring identifiers, passwords, social connections and other authentication strategies.
- Session tokens
Session tokens, their claims, lifetime and refresh.
- Verifying sessions
Verifying session JWTs on your own backend.
- User management
Managing users, metadata, invitations and impersonation.
- Organizations
Organizations, members and multi-tenant features.
- Roles and permissions
Organization roles, permissions and authorization checks.
- Customization
Appearance, localization, email templates.
- Security
Bot protection, MFA, password rules.
- Webhooks
Webhooks that sync Clerk events like user.created to your database.
- Billing
Billing plans, subscriptions and entitlements.
- Environments and deployment
Development and production instances, domains and deployment.
- Testing
Test emails and phone numbers and testing tokens for automated tests.
- System limits
System limits and rate limits applied to Clerk APIs.
Each section links to the official page. Titles and summaries by Extra Credit; the docs belong to their authors.