I want to use fetch request in middleware. I expect it to be cached, so every request will just read value from cache instead of making new request after first time.

However in dev mode cache is not applied, so every page load makes very much lot of requests for every url on page, which takes forever to finish.
Is it possible to force cache in dev mode in this specific function?

Tried to also use unstable_cache, but it errors in middleware

// middleware.ts
import type { NextRequest } from 'next/server'

export default async function middleware(request: NextRequest) {
    const res = await fetch('http://localhost:3000/api/globals/redirects', {
        next: {
            revalidate: 86400,
            tags: ['redirects'],
        },
    })
    const redirects = await res.json()

    const path = request.nextUrl.pathname

    // (if path in redirects) ...
}