db authentication replaced by Google

middleware.ts

@@ -3,12 +3,11 @@
  * @description hooks-up `next-auth` into the page processing pipeline
  */
 
-import NextAuth from 'next-auth';
-import { authConfig } from './auth.config.db';
+import { auth } from '@/app/lib/auth.google'
  
-export default NextAuth(authConfig).auth;
+export default auth; // middleware will call NextAuth's `auth` method, which will in turn call) see `auth.config.google.ts`
  
 export const config = {
-  // https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/routing/middleware#matcher
+  // midleware will NOT be called for paths: ['/api/auth/*', '/_next/static/*', '/_next/image*']
   matcher: ['/((?!api|_next/static|_next/image|.*\\.png$).*)'],
 };