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by robust-cactus 843 days ago
Another insidious thing in Next: their middleware is completely sandboxed and you can't use any standard Node functionality. It doesn't matter if you're using vercel now or not, and there's no way to disable this.

This is pretty important for things like sessions with httpOnly cookies. And it forces you make an API call to yourself to resolve.
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ervine 843 days ago
https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/46722

If only this had been brought to their attention recently with a bunch of good-faith discussion.

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0xblinq 841 days ago
This is done so that you never use it (even in your own servers) because otherwise you won’t be able to move to their cloud.

This is why you don’t use VC backed dependencies that are not easy to move away from.

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