you can set session in cookies
https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/authentication

I am using old pages router. Is this still relevant?

Maybe it is just better to fetch authedUser on client side?

@Sun bear How do you consume the user data on your pages?

I take it out from the pageProps in the _app.tsx and then share it with context. But with this approach I have to fetch authedUser in every single route using getServerSideProps, to make it available under pageProps inside _app.tsx. Which is not ideal, because it does not let me use static generation

The reason I need it on every page is because I need user info in layout to show in the navigation bar

well, your approach is not correct

you want to show user data in the navigation bar but you still want SSG

it doesn't make sense

static generation happens in build time and at that moment you don't know auth user

yeah. I know it is not correct, that's why I am asking which would be the best approach, to fetch authed user on client side? What would you recommend

from your previous messages, I guess you are on the page router, right?

You can fetch user data from the client side and store it in your global state

Thanks

Why don't you wrap your all routes(pages) by a layout component?

I do. but I could not fetch it inside layout since I was using SSR

do client-side data fetching in your layout component I would suggest