newbie: are my conventions for checking if a user is logged in on client and server side fine?
hi so this is my first time rolling my own auth. ive used clerk before. the db im using with better auth is mongodb as my user data is there rn.
We only need google auth (no email/password). I've gone through the installation and setup and ive got google user logins registering in my mongodb collection.
The question I have is, am I properly checking if the users logged in (client and server side)?
for the client side, i made a "client-auth-guard" component that basically checks it.
So is it fine if I use this component for the client side:
https://gist.github.com/navincodesalot/e3fcd7581d92ae51ea1602cdb4ffe943
For server side checking if user is logged in, Iwould I have to use server actions? (https://www.better-auth.com/docs/integrations/next#rsc-and-server-actions)
but then how would the server side look like on a route handler? (my post, get, etc endpoints)
My middleware.ts: (follows a clerk pattern)
https://gist.github.com/navincodesalot/2f2d016202d298cafa7c3925a047e71c
Just wanted to know if I am approaching the checking on client and server side properly
thanks.
(Also I feel it’s a bit slow when checking if a user is logged in or not. And when I use my middleware to redirect users if they access locked routes, it’s chunky and slow. Is it cause it’s a dev server?)
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For guarding routes, use middleware to redirect users - but don’t fetch the session in the middleware, just rely on cookies (there’s an example in our Next.js integration docs).
For protecting pages, fetch the session in an RSC component and decide what to render based on that.
Regarding performance, make sure to use cookies in the middleware (without fetching the session), enable cookie cache, and make sure to proper DB indexes (explore optimization methods from the docs)
https://www.better-auth.com/docs/guides/optimizing-for-performance
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Sorry for the late reply, will check this out. Thank you!
Also is my middleware fine for defining public routes and etc