How to use getServerSideProps for every pages in next.js?

Question

I have set a cookie with nookies which store the values of all the products selected by user. I want to fetch the cookie in server side using getServerSideProps and pass the value as props. I have to display the value of cookie on all pages.

When I tried getServerSideProps in _app.js. It did not worked and it did not even run the code.

Is there any way to do it?

Answer 1

getServerSideProps does not work in _app.js. see docs.

you could use the older getInitialProps in your custom app component but then the automatic static optimisation is disabled, which is something Next.js bets on heavily.

it might be worth digging into your cookie use case and figure out if you really need to read it on the server side.

Answer 2

As of now, there isn't a built-in way to do it, so I've resorted to doing the following.

First, I created a file that holds the getServerSideProps function I want to run on every page:

// lib/serverProps.js
export default async function getServerSideProps(ctx) {
  // do something
  return {
    // data
  };
}

Then in every page (yes, every, I can't find a workaround; it might even be helpful if you don't need the code to execute on server pages), do:

import getServerSideProps from "../lib/serverProps";

// other stuff...

export { getServerSideProps };

or

// other stuff...

export { default as getServerSideProps } from "../lib/serverProps";

---

If you want to add other code to run inside getServerSideProps for a specific page, you could do something along the lines...

import serverProps from "../lib/serverProps";

// other stuff...

export async function getServerSideProps(ctx) {
  // do custom page stuff...
  return {
    ...await serverProps(ctx),
    ...{
      // pretend this is what you put inside
      // the return block regularly, e.g.
      props: { junk: 347 }
    }
  };
}

Answer 3

For those wanting to share state received from a page's getServerSideProps function to global components in pages/_app.tsx, I've pieced this solution together.

• Create a shared getServerSideProps function to include on all pages
• Create a shared useSetUserStorage custom hook to include on all pages
• Listen for localStorage changes with custom event listener in global component (e.g. GlobalNav)

It's a work around, but is working for me so far (note that it includes some specifics to my use of getServerSideProps function).

It's a fair amount of code but hopefully this helps someone:

// src/pages/_app.tsx

import type { AppProps } from "next/app";

import GlobalNav from "../components/GlobalNav";

function MyApp({ Component, pageProps: { session, ...pageProps } }: AppProps) {
  return (
    <>
      <GlobalNav /> // <— your global component
      <Component {...pageProps} />
    </>
  );
}

export default MyApp;

// src/utils/getServerSideProps.ts

import { ppinit, ppsession, sess } from "../authMiddleware";
import nc from "next-connect";
import { NextApiRequest, NextApiResponse } from "next";

import { User } from "../types/types";

interface ExtendedReq extends NextApiRequest {
  user: User;
}

interface ServerProps {
  req: ExtendedReq;
  res: NextApiResponse;
}

interface ServerPropsReturn {
  user?: User;
}

//
// Here we use middleware to augment the `req` with the user from passport.js
// to pass to the page
// src: https://github.com/hoangvvo/next-connect/tree/21c9c73fe3746e66033fd51e2aa01d479e267ad6#runreq-res
//
const getServerSideProps = async ({ req, res }: ServerProps) => {
  // ADD YOUR CUSTOM `getServerSideProps` code here
  const middleware = nc()
    .use(sess, ppinit, ppsession)
    .get((req: Express.Request, res: NextApiResponse, next) => {
      next();
    });

  try {
    await middleware.run(req, res);
  } catch (e) {
    // handle the error
  }

  const props: ServerPropsReturn = {};
  if (req.user) props.user = req.user;
  return { props };
};

export interface Props {
  user?: User;
}

export default getServerSideProps;

// src/hooks.ts

import { useEffect } from "react";

import { User } from "./types/types";

export const useSetUserStorage = (user?: User) => {
  useEffect(() => {
    if (user) {
      localStorage.setItem("user", JSON.stringify(user));
    } else {
      localStorage.removeItem("user");
    }

    // whether setting or removing the user, dispatch event so that `GlobalNav`
    // component (which is above the page implementing this hook in the
    // component hierarchy) can be updated to display the user status.  we
    // can't use `window.addEventListener('storage', handler)` as this only
    // works for listening for events from other pages
    document.dispatchEvent(new Event("localStorageUserUpdated"));
  });

  return null;
};

// src/pages/index.tsx (or any page)

import { useSetUserStorage } from "../hooks";

import { Props } from "../utils/getServerSideProps";
export { default as getServerSideProps } from "../utils/getServerSideProps";

export default function Home({ user }: Props) {
  useSetUserStorage(user);

  return (
    <>
      <h1>Welcome to my app {user?.username}</h1>
    </>
  );
}

// src/components/GlobalNav.ts (or another global component)

import { useEffect, useState, MouseEvent } from "react";

import { User } from "../types/types";

const GlobalNav = () => {
  const [user, setUser] = useState<User | null>(null);

  useEffect(() => {
    const handleUserLocalStorage = () => {
      const userString = localStorage.getItem("user");

      try {
        if (userString) {
          setUser(JSON.parse(userString));
        } else {
          setUser(null);
        }
      } catch (e) {
        // handle parse error
      }
    };

    handleUserLocalStorage();
    // this component (`GlobalNav`) lives at the application level, above the
    // pages, but the pages receive the user object from `getServerSideProps`,
    // so this listener listens for when a page tells us the user object has
    // changed so we can update the `user` state here.
    document.addEventListener(
      "localStorageUserUpdated",
      handleUserLocalStorage,
      false,
    );

    return () => {
      // remove listener if component unmounts
      document.removeEventListener(
        "localStorageUserUpdated",
        handleUserLocalStorage,
      );
    };
  }, []);

  return (
    <div>
      {user?.username}
    </div>
  );
};
export default GlobalNav;