Karthickeyan
BABetter Auth
•Created by Karthickeyan on 5/8/2025 in #help
❓ Help with better-auth: cookieCache not persisting after maxAge expires
Hey everyone, I'm using better-auth and I have cookieCache enabled (true) with maxAge set to 60 * 1 (1 minute). When I first log in, two cookies are set:
better-auth.session_token
better-auth.session_data
When I call the API route api/auth/get-session, the session is correctly read from the cookie, and no DB query is made (confirmed using Drizzle's query logger in the console).
However, after maxAge expires:
The better-auth.session_data cookie is destroyed.
A DB query is made to fetch session data (which is expected).
But the session_data cookie is not re-set, so on every subsequent request, it keeps querying the DB again and again.
Is this a bug in better-auth? Or am I missing something in the setup?
Would appreciate any help or clarification on this! 🙏
Would you like me to help you debug this behavior or write a GitHub issue template for it as well?
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