Best practice for route protection in Next.js + Auth.js + Prisma (avoiding Prisma Edge runtime issue
Hi everyone, I’m a beginner with the Next.js + Auth.js + Prisma stack and I’m stuck on route protection.
I already set up GitHub login successfully (https://github.com/harley61p/nextjs-authjs-prisma-example.git).
Now I want to protect certain routes, so that only logged-in users can access them.
I tried using middleware.ts, but Prisma throws an error:
PrismaClientValidationError: In order to run Prisma Client on edge runtime...
I understand middleware runs on the Edge runtime, so Prisma can’t be used there.
But what’s the recommended way to implement elegant route protection with this stack?
Should I only check session/token inside middleware.ts and move DB checks to server components / API routes?
Or is there a better practice?
Which Discord would be best to ask this (Next.js, Prisma, or Auth.js)?
Thanks a lot! 🙏
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