Why Your MongoDB Check in Next.js Middleware Might Be Silently Failing

I mentioned this briefly in an earlier post on middleware patterns, that direct database queries don't run reliably in middleware, and a few people asked what "not reliably" actually means in practice, since it sounds vague enough to ignore. It's worth a real, specific answer, because the actual failure mode here is genuinely easy to miss until it... Weiterlesen: Why Your MongoDB Check in Next.js Middleware Might Be Silently Failing