**Note**: This PR is applying again changes landed #31935 that were reverted from an investigation.
This PR fixes#30398
By default Next will polyfill some fetch APIs (Request, Response, Header and fetch) only if fetch is not found in the global scope in certain entry points. If we have a custom server which is adding a global fetch (and only fetch) at the very top then the rest of APIs will not be polyfilled.
This PR adds a test on the custom server where we can add a custom polyfill for fetch with an env variable. This reproduces the issue since next-server.js will be required without having a polyfill for Response which makes it fail on requiring NextResponse. Then we remove the code that checks for subrequests to happen within the **sandbox** so that we don't need to polyfill `next-server` anymore.
The we also introduce an improvement on how we handle relative requests. Since #31858 introduced a `port` and `hostname` options for the server, we can always pass absolute URLs to the Middleware so we can always use the original `nextUrl` to pass it to fetch. This brings a lot of simplification for `NextURL` since we don't have to consider relative URLs no more.
## Bug
- [x] Related issues linked using `fixes #number`
- [x] Integration tests added
- [x] Errors have helpful link attached, see `contributing.md`
This PR fixes#30398
By default Next will polyfill some fetch APIs (Request, Response, Header and fetch) only if fetch is not found in the global scope in certain entry points. If we have a custom server which is adding a global fetch (and only fetch) at the very top then the rest of APIs will not be polyfilled.
This PR adds a test on the custom server where we can add a custom polyfill for fetch with an env variable. This reproduces the issue since next-server.js will be required without having a polyfill for Response which makes it fail on requiring NextResponse. Then we remove the code that checks for subrequests to happen within the **sandbox** so that we don't need to polyfill `next-server` anymore.
The we also introduce an improvement on how we handle relative requests. Since #31858 introduced a `port` and `hostname` options for the server, we can always pass absolute URLs to the Middleware so we can always use the original `nextUrl` to pass it to fetch. This brings a lot of simplification for `NextURL` since we don't have to consider relative URLs no more.
## Bug
- [x] Related issues linked using `fixes #number`
- [x] Integration tests added
- [x] Errors have helpful link attached, see `contributing.md`
This allows TypeScript users to have type safety for middleware functions.
- Closes#30490
Co-authored-by: Lee Robinson <9113740+leerob@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: JJ Kasper <22380829+ijjk@users.noreply.github.com>
This PR adds support for [Middleware as per RFC ](https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/29750).
## Feature
- [ ] Implements an existing feature request or RFC. Make sure the feature request has been accepted for implementation before opening a PR.
- [ ] Related issues linked using `fixes #number`
- [ ] Integration tests added
- [ ] Documentation added
- [ ] Telemetry added. In case of a feature if it's used or not.
- [ ] Errors have helpful link attached, see `contributing.md`
## Documentation / Examples
- [ ] Make sure the linting passes