How does auth.js works on middleware if DB connections are disabled?

[kstratis]

This is mostly a theoretical question but I've been following the next js tutorial here: https://nextjs.org/learn/dashboard-app/adding-authentication and at some point the author enables authentication in their demo app through Auth.js.

It all works fine and all but after going through Auth.js docs I got a little confused: Using the 'Credentials' strategy how is middleware supposed to read the browser cookies and check the database for an active session when it is explicitly stated that middleware can't access a DB due to the edge environment?

Thanks 🙏

[rmarpozo]

I'm facing the same problem here. Trying to access MongoDB from the middleware is not working