fix(ui): improve ui package typechecking

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Description

This PR:

• Fixes a couple of thousand ts errors in UI test files by various fixs like pulling in the correct vitest types
• Makes test TS config not pull in entire clerk-js TS by using a small local shim
• Main one: Separates src and test TS-configs. A root config with empty files/include now points the src and test ones out as references instead, meaning they rely on each other, but act as separate projects

Compared to Electron, UI is a larger package, so keeping configs separate here makes more sense and merging them is harder.

Checklist

• 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

Type of change

• 🐛 Bug fix
• 🌟 New feature
• 🔨 Breaking change
• 📖 Refactoring / dependency upgrade / documentation
• other:

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Walkthrough

The UI package now uses separate source and test TypeScript projects. The source project emits declarations and excludes tests. The test project references the source project and includes global declarations. Test shims, Vitest types, fixtures, ESLint resolution, build scripts, tsdown, and Turbo inputs were updated.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 14697

UI tests that pass valid Clerk.load configuration may still fail typechecking because the local shim rejects those options. This should be corrected or explicitly accepted before merging.

Suggested reviewers: alexcarpenter

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Inline comments:
In `@packages/ui/package.json`:
- Line 107: Update the type-check script to avoid combining --noEmit with the
composite tsconfig.src.json configuration; use a compatible composite build
command or a separate non-composite checking configuration while preserving
type-checking behavior.
- Line 107: Update the type-check script in package.json to run the
project-reference build via tsconfig.json, ensuring both source and test
projects are type-checked instead of only tsconfig.src.json.

In `@packages/ui/src/test/core-shims/clerk.ts`:
- Line 3: Update the Clerk shim’s load method to accept the same optional
load-options parameter used by repository callers and explicitly return
Promise<void>, while preserving its no-op behavior.

In `@packages/ui/tsconfig.mosaic.json`:
- Line 4: Update the configuration represented by tsconfig.mosaic.json to avoid
the inherited tsBuildInfoFile conflict: either retain composite support with
incremental enabled, or remove the inherited build-info setting while preserving
the intended non-composite behavior. Ensure the effective configuration is
accepted by TypeScript 6.0.3 when loaded by tsdown.

In `@packages/ui/turbo.json`:
- Around line 14-15: Add tsdown.config.mts to the build task’s explicit inputs
in turbo.json, or include $TURBO_DEFAULT$, so changes to the configuration
invalidate cached outputs while preserving the existing tsconfig inputs.

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API Changes Report

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Summary

Metric	Count
Packages analyzed	19
Packages with changes	1
🔴 Breaking changes	0
🟡 Non-breaking changes	6
🟢 Additions	0

🤖 This report was reviewed by claude-sonnet-4-6.

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@clerk/ui

Current version: 1.32.2
Recommended bump: MINOR → 1.33.0

Subpath ./entry

🟡 Non-breaking Changes (1)

Modified: ClerkUI.ensureMounted

  ensureMounted(opts?: {
      preloadHint?: string;
    }): Promise<ComponentControls>;

Static analyzer: Breaking change in method ClerkUI.ensureMounted: Return type changed: !Promise:interface<import("@clerk/shared").ComponentControls> → !Promise:interface<!unknown>

🤖 AI review (reclassified as non-breaking) (85%): The before and after snippets are textually identical (Promise<ComponentControls> in both), so no consumer-visible type change exists in the public API surface; the rule-based flag appears to reflect an internal reference resolution difference (the ComponentControls import source changed), but the resolved shape and public signature are unchanged.

Subpath ./internal

🟡 Non-breaking Changes (4)

Modified: ComponentControls

// ... 24 unchanged lines elided ...
    prefetch: (component: 'organizationSwitcher') => void;
    mountImpersonationFab: () => void;
  };

Static analyzer: Breaking change in type alias ComponentControls: Type changed: {mountComponent:(params:{appearanceKey:!Uncapitalize:type<import("@clerk/ui").~AppearanceCascade['appearanceKey']>;name… → {mountComponent:(params:{appearanceKey:!Uncapitalize:type<import("@clerk/ui").~AppearanceCascade['appearanceKey']>;name…

🤖 AI review (reclassified as non-breaking) (85%): The before and after snippets for ComponentControls are identical in structure and content; no actual type difference is detectable from the provided snippets, so no well-typed consumer is affected.

Modified: ElementsConfig

// ... 559 unchanged lines elided ...
    walletIcon: WithOptions<string, LoadingState>;
    walletInitialIcon: WithOptions<string, LoadingState>;
  };

Static analyzer: Breaking change in type alias ElementsConfig: Type changed: {button:import("@clerk/ui").~WithOptions<string>;input:import("@clerk/ui").~WithOptions;checkbox:import("@clerk/ui").~W… → {button:import("@clerk/ui").~WithOptions<string>;input:import("@clerk/ui").~WithOptions;checkbox:import("@clerk/ui").~W…

🤖 AI review (reclassified as non-breaking) (85%): The before and after snippets for ElementsConfig are identical in structure and content; ElementsConfig is used only as a mapped-type source for the output-direction Elements type alias, so no consumer-authored input values are affected.

Modified: Ui

// ... 3 unchanged lines elided ...
    version?: string;
    __appearanceType?: A;
  }, 'ClerkUI'>;

Static analyzer: Breaking change in type alias Ui: Type changed: import("@clerk/ui").~Tagged<{__brand:typeof import("@clerk/ui").UI_BRAND;ClerkUI?:import("@clerk/shared").ClerkUIConstr… → import("@clerk/ui").~Tagged<{__brand:typeof import("@clerk/ui").UI_BRAND;ClerkUI?:!unknown;version?:string;__appearance…

🤖 AI review (reclassified as non-breaking) (75%): The before and after snippets for Ui are structurally identical; the rule-based flag likely reflects a change in how ClerkUIConstructor is resolved, but the visible shape of Ui is unchanged, so no well-typed consumer code is broken.

Modified: WithInternalRouting

// ... 4 unchanged lines elided ...
    path?: never;
    routing?: Extract<RoutingStrategy, 'hash' | 'virtual'>;
  });

Static analyzer: Breaking change in type alias WithInternalRouting: Type changed: (!Omit:type<T,'path'|'routing'>&{path:string|undefined;routing?:!Extract:type<import("@clerk/shared").RoutingStrategy,'… → (!Omit:type<T,'path'|'routing'>&{path:string|undefined;routing?:!Extract:type<!unknown,'path'>;})|(!Omit:type<T,'path'|…

🤖 AI review (reclassified as non-breaking) (80%): The before and after snippets for WithInternalRouting are structurally identical; the description notes Extract<unknown, 'path'> vs Extract<RoutingStrategy, 'path'> but the resolved union arms shown in both snippets are the same, so no consumer is affected.

Subpath ./themes/experimental

🟡 Non-breaking Changes (1)

Modified: createTheme

// ... 9 unchanged lines elided ...
    captcha?: import("@clerk/ui/internal").CaptchaAppearanceOptions | undefined;
    cssLayerName?: string | undefined;
  }

Static analyzer: Breaking change in function createTheme: Return type changed: {__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;} → {__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;}

🤖 AI review (reclassified as non-breaking) (95%): The before and after snippets are structurally identical — both resolve to the same return type with Elements, InternalTheme, BaseTheme, and @clerk/ui/internal imports unchanged; the ~ vs !unknown notation in the compact description is a serialization artifact, not an actual type difference.

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