Nextjs auth using middleware (error)

Hello everyone,

I am trying to use a middleware to protect some routes on my NextJS project.

I am running into an error. Could someone help me understand what it means ?

NB : I am using appwrite 1.5 (self-hosted)

edit: typo

I found the following in the NextJS documentation :

"Middleware currently only supports the Edge runtime. The Node.js runtime can not be used."

So "import { Client, Account } from "node-appwrite"; is probably the issue here.

What do you think about just checking if there is a cookie ?

Probably the worst idea ever right ? Because everyone could just generate a custom cookie... Right ?

Soooo basically, I am f***ed and need to wait for Node.js runtime support by NextJS for middleware ?

This is a known issue for the SDK, and I'm fairly sure they're working on a fix to see if they can polyfill to allow it to be used for Edge runtime. For my project using this, I do just check if a cookie is set and then do the auth checks in a layout instead until I'm able to move it to middleware.

https://github.com/appwrite/sdk-generator/pull/795
https://github.com/appwrite/sdk-generator/pull/799

Thanks Ryan for your time and your answer.

I will follow this closely. ❤️