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Next Auth "useSession" syntax

I'm reading through the next-auth documentation, and I'm confused by the syntax for the useSession hook. Here's how it's used in the documentation

  const { data: session, status } = useSession()

However, I don't understand why we're assigning session to data. Wouldn't we achieve the same result if we just did this:

const { data, status } = useSession()

I'm sure I'm missing something here, but I'm not sure what it is. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Solution

  • It's just a naming convention in the next-auth world to use the term 'session' when using useSession(), so it'd be similar to when using getSession(), where in both cases session object includes a user object and expires string. So long story short you can assign it to whatever var name you want, or just directly use the data variable.