How do you set a an api route to run on the edge and also how do I verify that it actually is?

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Just in general I don’t think I understand how to run a nextjs function on the edge with netlify for example I thought that if I did something like this

export const runtime = "edge"

export async function GET(request: Request, response: Response) {
  const session = await withAuth()
  console.log("On Edge session route")
  if (session) {
    return Response.json(session)
  }

  return Response.json({ error: "Unauthorized" }, { status: 401 })
}

Then it would run this on the edge but I see the logs over here

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And nothing in the edge function logs, so I guess firstly would I be correct that if it were running on the edge runtime I would see logs in the edge runtime logs not server logs?

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This is a Vercel specific feature. That does nothing on Netlify.

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Thanks for the reply, well that explains a lot.

So how do you get a nextjs route to run on the edge in netlify?

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You don’t. All API routes run on Lambda. Only Middleware runs on Edge Functions. If you want, you can deploy separate Netlify Edge Functions to handle your API.

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Might be worth editing this page then

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This is what I see in the docs: Next.js on Netlify | Netlify Docs

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Where are you seeing that?

EDIT: Oh, on OpenNext docs…

EDIT 2: PR Submitted: chore: make docs clearer about Netlify Functions vs Edge Functions provisioning by hrishikesh-k · Pull Request #115 · opennextjs/docs

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