Consistently access `request` on the server #13890

rudfoss · 2020-06-08T06:26:29Z

rudfoss
Jun 8, 2020

Edit: see reproducible source: https://github.com/rudfoss/next-server-custom-req

I'm implementing OpenID Connect with express + passport + nextjs and I'm trying to let every page in my app know the authentication state of the user (+ all claim information). In previous projects I've done this through dumping parts of the req.session data to the page, picking it up on the client and using it for whatever I need. However I'm unsure on how to do this correctly using NextJS.

I've read a lot of documentation and discussions (including this) on how to read the req object, but nothing seems to consistently work. All I want to do is get data from req.user (aka. req.session.passport.user) to the client.

I've tried modifying _document to return the data.

import Document, {
  Head,
  Main,
  NextScript,
  DocumentContext,
} from "next/document"

export default class Doc extends Document {
  public static async getInitialProps(ctx: DocumentContext) {
    const req: any = ctx.req
    console.log("req/user", `${!!req}/${!!(req && req.user)}`)
    console.log(req && req.user)
    const initialProps = await Document.getInitialProps(ctx)
    return {
      ...initialProps,
      user: req?.user || "no user",
    }
  }

  public render() {
    return (
      <html>
        <Head />
        <body>
          <Main />
          <NextScript />
        </body>
      </html>
    )
  }
}

Is there a way to consistently dump req.user to all pages? I don't care about deoptimization.

rudfoss · 2020-06-08T09:57:17Z

rudfoss
Jun 8, 2020
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It appears that this runs only on the very first request to the application. How can I ensure it runs on every request?

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