Convex Auth on the server?
I'm using Convex Auth, Convex Ents, and TanStack Start.
I want to be able to take advantage of the
beforeLoad method of each route to redirect unauthenticated users as it's wasteful and prone to security leaks if I rely sole on the Authenticated and Unathenticated components as people have been suggesting here.
Now I get that sessions are managed in localstorage, and it's a tall order to validate that on the server (wouldn't be a problem if you used cookies instead), but is there a plan to be able to let us get the auth status of a user on the server? There's already a way to use Convex calls on the server, so surely there's a way to check if a user is authenticated or not?4 Replies
hi! on the server means in your convex functions? which server are you referring to?
check out server side auth for Next.js, that sounds like the kind of thing you want here. https://labs.convex.dev/auth/authz/nextjs
Support specifically for Tanstack Start is coming for this, a few other things have come up in the couple weeks that slowed progress on this.
Server-side authentication in Next.js 14 - Convex Auth
Authentication library for your Convex backend
As in things like
createServerFn and beforeLoad in TanStack Start.
Good to know it'll be solved eventually, I'll see if I can come up with another hacky way of working with thisIs this still in the pipeline? The TanstackStart docs for auth on the server seems to be lacking. Many places (like this) point to nextjs, which is frustrating.