No, not even in middleware.

Why? Because it slows down staff. For each request, you need to authenticate the user, even when it’s unnecessary.

It would be better to authenticate the user for the specific path they want to access.

For example, if you want to authorize a user for the admin or settings page, you can implement that directly on those paths.

What about if i authenticate in navbar and in certain page i make 2 requests

i tried caching it with react cache but it still makes 2 requests (4 in the terminal dev mode)

what if you check only in protected routes for auth in middleware?

The thing is it depends on your usecase, if you have only 1-2 protected route sure

I have many protected routes... I don't want to use middleware to do it