Why you need cookie-based Auth for the Next.js App Router (2024)

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The Next.js App Router makes it really easy to write client code - for things like realtime subscriptions - and server code - for things like data fetching. In this video, Jon Meyers explains why you need cookies to implement Auth in mixed client/server environments 🚀. If you care about security in your app (which you should) - watch this… Jon at Supabase is back showing us the power of (and explaining) integration of cookie-based authentication in mixed client/server environments using the Next.js App Router. Today, you’re going to learn why cookies are essential for authentication in modern web applications and how they facilitate secure and efficient user-specific data access also known…