Calling Express `request.send` inside tRPC middleware/procedures

export const createContext = async ({ req, res }: trpcExpress.CreateExpressContextOptions) => {
    // include the request and response objects to be used in procedures
    return { req, res };
};

export const protectedProcedure = t.procedure.use(async function isAuthenticated(opts) {
    const { req } = opts.ctx;

    // this will call res.status(401).send("UNAUTHORIZED") if the token is invalid
    // but it's not a simple function and i would have to rewrite our whole auth layer to decouple it from the req/res
    await runJWTValidations(req, res);

    const token = getTokenFromRequest(req);
    
    const user = await getUserFromToken(token);

    if (!user) {
        throw new TRPCError({ code: "UNAUTHORIZED" });
    }

    return opts.next({
        ctx: { ...opts.ctx, user },
    });
});