Express with NextJS
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LaPerm posted this in #help-forum
LaPermOP
Has anyone got a good guide or example with how to do auth from an express backend to a modern NextJs front end. I am using the latest version with app router.
I have passport and express sessions running on backend and want to know how I can integrate with server actions in the recommended way.
As server actions run on the server cookies aren’t automatically handled.
All examples I’ve found are just using nextjs with an auth library solely or very old methods when next worked mostly on the
Client
I have passport and express sessions running on backend and want to know how I can integrate with server actions in the recommended way.
As server actions run on the server cookies aren’t automatically handled.
All examples I’ve found are just using nextjs with an auth library solely or very old methods when next worked mostly on the
Client
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LaPermOP
I have come up with a solution where during login I get the response from the express server and I check the headers for set-cookie and then parse it and set the values to my next frontend using the next cookies function. When doing request to subsequent auth routes I get get the cookie from next and then attach it in the headers of the fetch. Not sure if this is best way but is working.