import { isAuthenticated } from '@lib/auth'
 
// Limit the middleware to paths starting with `/api/`
export const config = {
  matcher: '/api/:function*',
}
 
export function middleware(request: NextRequest) {
  // Call our authentication function to check the request
  if (!isAuthenticated(request)) {
    // Respond with JSON indicating an error message
    return new NextResponse(
      JSON.stringify({ success: false, message: 'authentication failed' }),
      { status: 401, headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' } }
    )
  }
}
Advanced Middleware Flags
In v13.1 of Next.js two additional flags were introduced for middleware, skipMiddlewareUrlNormalize and skipTrailingSlashRedirect to handle advanced use cases.