[SDK-813] Remix: Provide Non-Root Implementation

[parisholley]

Preliminary Checks

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Description

The current documentation encourages the user to create a root loader and wrap the main App with ClerkApp however this is not an efficient implementation for a few reasons:

1. There is no way to avoid making a call to the ClerkAPI every request, if some routes are unauthenticated, it is wasted latency.
2. Any use of getAuth() in a loader will cause additional requests as there is no request-level cache (eg: storing promise on the remix context, keeping in mind that loaders execute in parallel).

Rather than only offer ClerkApp as a solution, encourage the user use ClerkProvider directly and provide a getClerkState() call that returns valid types for TS.

Affected Packages

@clerk/remix

_SDK-813

[LekoArts]

Hello!

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[AdiRishi]

Super +1 on this. It would be a huge win given many apps can have a large "logged out" section of routes where there is no need to call the clerk auth endpoint.

[alopes]

Any updates on this?

[jescalan]

https://github.com/orgs/clerk/discussions/3829