- The middleware in Next.js allows the use of
next response
to redirect requests to a specific URL or rewrite responses, as well as set cookies and headers. - To test redirection within the middleware, check if the path matches
/articles
. If it does, use thenext response
to redirect. - When redirecting, it's important to provide an absolute URL, not just a relative path (e.g.,
http://localhost:3000/post
instead of just/post
). - The
redirect
method can take a string or URL object as an argument. - To preserve query strings (like
?sort=latest
) in the redirected URL, provide theredirect
method with a URL object, which can be constructed by cloning the current request URL and modifying its pathname before passing it tonext response
.