Trying to return a server-side response using Koa context, but not working on production

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I’m trying to use Stripe on Node server with Frontity, and would like to return to the client some data (in this case session_id). I’m using beforeSSR action to create a custom route. I was able to return the value using return ctx.res.send({ someData }) on development, but when deployed to Vercel, this action returns 500 Internal Server Error.

Here’s what I’m trying to do on beforeSSR:

// server.js
beforeSSR: ({ state, actions, libraries }) => async({ ctx }) => {
  const data = state.source.data[state.router.link];
  if (data.route === '/create-checkout-session/') {
    const sessionId = await createStripeCheckoutSession(); // my function to get Stripe session ID
    return ctx.res.send({ sessionId }); // works on development, but 500 Internal server error on production
  }
}

Is there a better way to achieve this? That is, to send data back to the client from the server.

Thanks!

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Hi @kevin ,

did you read over this?

J

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Hi @codemonkeynorth ,

Thank you! I actually missed that, so thanks for pointing that out. I’ve tried one suggestion there, that is using ctx.respond = false to bypass Koa, before returning ctx.res.send(), but unfortunately that doesn’t work either. Moreover, I can’t generate Stripe session id on the client as that would expose the secret key.

So it seems that I have to not use Frontity to run the server-side function as there’s no way to return a response to the client side (at least for now). I thought I was very close to making this work :sweat_smile:

More suggestions are welcome, though! Thanks!