middleware.ts

import { clerkMiddleware, createRouteMatcher } from "@clerk/nextjs/server";

const isProtectedRoute = createRouteMatcher(["/submit(.*)", "/mySubmissions(.*)"]);

export default clerkMiddleware(async (auth, req) => {
	if (isProtectedRoute(req)) await auth.protect();
});

export const config = {
	matcher: [
		// Skip Next.js internals and all static files, unless found in search params
		"/((?!_next|[^?]*\\.(?:html?|css|js(?!on)|jpe?g|webp|png|gif|svg|ttf|woff2?|ico|csv|docx?|xlsx?|zip|webmanifest)).*)",
		// Always run for API routes
		"/(api|trpc)(.*)"
	]
};