Middleware with <Link navigation and middlewares

[ecoskun87]

Hello, in TanStack Start when we do <Link to="someProtectedPage" ...> the server side doesn’t run. Only client-side navigation happens. Since the server-side middlewares don’t run, we can’t check whether the user is logged in or not. How do you solve this problem? I know it can be done in beforeLoader (by using serverFn for auth inside beforeLoader), but is that the correct and secure way? If that’s the right approach, then what is middleware for?

[schiller-manuel]

request middleware is server only. beforeLoad is also a kind of middleware, but very specific to router. and yes, that's the recommended way.