Workaround · API & developer experience · Annoyance
Cookie middleware needed to make built-in auth work with server-side rendering
1 source thread · first seen 2025-04
Summary
A developer building a server-rendered SaaS template found PocketBase's built-in auth only works with SSR after writing their own cookie middleware. They question whether PocketBase is worth it given its client-library-to-DB model.
- Affects
- developer building a server-rendered SaaS template
- Workaround
- Wrote custom cookie middleware and wrapped all calls in their own API routes
Evidence
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“I've had to write cookie middleware to make it SSR anyway”