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Next 13.4 Error: NEXT_REDIRECT in API routes

Full error message

My /app/api/auth/route.ts file:

import { redirect } from 'next/navigation';
    
export async function GET(req: Request) {
  try {
    redirect('/dashboard');
  } catch (error) {
    console.log(error);
    redirect('/');
  }
}

I realized that when I do redirect in a try catch, I get the error :

Error: NEXT_REDIRECT
        at getRedirectError (webpack-internal:///(sc_server)/./node_modules/next/dist/client/components/redirect.js:40:19)
        at redirect (webpack-internal:///(sc_server)/./node_modules/next/dist/client/components/redirect.js:46:11)
        at GET (webpack-internal:///(sc_server)/./app/api/auth/route.ts:23:66)
        at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
        at async eval (webpack-internal:///(sc_server)/./node_modules/next/dist/server/future/route-modules/app-route/module.js:244:37) {
      digest: 'NEXT_REDIRECT;replace;/dashboard'
    }

When I get get rid of the try catch everything works fine:

export async function GET(req: Request) {
  redirect('/dashboard')
}

This works as expected. I need try and catch because this is an auth route and I need some error handling because the request could fail, I have left out the auth functionalities because I realized that this happens just on a simple try and catch.

Or if Next 13 has another way of error handling in /api routes please let me know.

Solutionsource: stackoverflow \u2197

When using redirect in a server component you should move it to the finally block. Here is how: export default async function Page() { let redirectPath: string | null = null try { //Rest of the code redirectPath = `/dashboard` } catch (error) { //Rest of the code redirectPath = `/` } finally { //Clear resources if (redirectPath) redirect(redirectPath) } return <>{/*Rest of JSX*/}</> } From the redirect documentation: redirect internally throws an error so it should be called outside of try/catch blocks. In api routes you should use the NextResponse from next/server. Here is how import { NextRequest, NextResponse } from "next/server"; export function GET(request: NextRequest) { try { //Code return NextResponse.redirect(`<an absolute url>`) } catch { //Error handling code return NextResponse.redirect(`<an absolute url>`) } finally { //Clear resources //No redirect here } }

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