So basically I made a middleware that check if a user actually registered with their phone number (this is a fake whatsapp).

I already checked if I create a cookie session and if the encrypt and decrypt work which they do, issue is I never get to be able to re-render to the /home route even if I get a cookie session activate which I debugged. My only conclusion is that my updateSession which is a func that update the cookie exp date, the use for it is that if I log in today at x time and let's say cookies expires at 6 days, if I log in 5 days after the login the cookie will be renewed.

this is the middleware:

const protectedRoutes = ["/home"];

export async function middleware(req: NextRequest): Promise<NextResponse> {
  const path = req.nextUrl.pathname;
  const isProtectedRoute = protectedRoutes.includes(path);
  const cookie = (await cookies()).get("session")?.value;
  const session = cookie ? await decryptCookies(cookie) : null;

  if (!session && isProtectedRoute) {
    return NextResponse.redirect(new URL("/", req.nextUrl));
  } else if (session && !isProtectedRoute) {
    return NextResponse.redirect(new URL("/home", req.nextUrl));
  }
  return await updateSession(req);
} 

export async function updateSession(
  request: NextRequest
): Promise<NextResponse> {
  {
    // This function only used for updating the session cookies in the middleware
    // returns a new response to the server
    const session = request.cookies.get("session")?.value!;

    if (!session) {
      return NextResponse.next();
    }
    const parsed = await decryptCookies(session);
    parsed.expires = new Date(Date.now() + 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000); // 24h forward

    const res = NextResponse.next();
    res.cookies.set({
      name: "session",
      value: await encryptCookies(parsed),
      expires: parsed.expires,
      httpOnly: true,
    });

    return res;
  }
}