It seems you're experiencing an issue with Astro middleware behaving differently between your local development environment and Vercel deployment. This is likely related to how Vercel handles Astro middleware.
When using Astro middleware with Vercel, there are some specific considerations to be aware of. The Vercel adapter for Astro can run middleware in different ways, which might explain the behavior you're seeing.
By default, Astro middleware runs on Vercel's serverless functions. However, there's an option to run it on Vercel Edge Functions instead, which might handle responses differently. When using edgeMiddleware: true in your Vercel adapter configuration, your middleware code executes as an edge function for all requests, including static assets and rendered pages.
import { defineConfig } from 'astro/config';
import vercel from '@astrojs/vercel';
export default defineConfig({
adapter: vercel({
edgeMiddleware: true,
}),
});
This configuration might help resolve your issue by ensuring your middleware runs consistently on Vercel's edge network Running Astro middleware on Vercel Edge Functions.
Another thing to check is that your middleware is properly returning a Response object. Astro requires middleware to return a valid Response object or call the next() function. If it doesn't, you might see errors like: