redirect

The redirect function allows you to redirect the user to another URL. redirect can be used in Server Components, Client Components, Route Handlers, and Server Actions.

When used in a streaming context, this will insert a meta tag to emit the redirect on the client side. Otherwise, it will serve a 307 HTTP redirect response to the caller.

If a resource doesn't exist, you can use the notFound function instead.

Good to know: If you prefer to return a 308 (Permanent) HTTP redirect instead of 307 (Temporary), you can use the permanentRedirect function instead.

Parameters

The redirect function accepts two arguments:

redirect(path, type)

By default, redirect will use push (adding a new entry to the browser history stack) in Server Actions and replace (replacing the current URL in the browser history stack) everywhere else. You can override this behavior by specifying the type parameter.

The type parameter has no effect when used in Server Components.

Returns

redirect does not return any value.

Example

Invoking the redirect() function throws a NEXT_REDIRECT error and terminates rendering of the route segment in which it was thrown.

import { redirect } from 'next/navigation'
 
async function fetchTeam(id) {
  const res = await fetch('https://...')
  if (!res.ok) return undefined
  return res.json()
}
 
export default async function Profile({ params }) {
  const team = await fetchTeam(params.id)
  if (!team) {
    redirect('/login')
  }
 
  // ...
}

Good to know: redirect does not require you to use return redirect() as it uses the TypeScript never type.