I have a question in regard to `SessionAuthForNext...
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I have a question in regard to
SessionAuthForNextJS
- if I perform all the checks (error, session, hasToken claims etc.) then do I still need to wrap my page with
<SessionAuthForNextJS />
as [shown in the docs](https://supertokens.com/docs/thirdpartyemailpassword/nextjs/app-directory/protecting-route#using---presessionauthfornextjs-and-checking-for-sessions--pre) ? If so, why is that? I understand that it will handle the redirects appropriately (written in the docs), but isn't it a bit redundant? It's already used in the checks before the page is returned. This fragment of code says:
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// `session` will be undefined if it does not exist or has expired
if (!session) {
    // component is returned within these checks
}
Then the comment above the final return statement says roughly the same:
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/**
 * SessionAuthForNextJS will handle proper redirection for the user based on the different session states.
 * It will redirect to the login page if the session does not exist etc.
 */
return (
    <SessionAuthForNextJS>
        <div>
            Your user id is: {session.getUserId()}
        </div>
    </SessionAuthForNextJS>
);
To my understanding it would be impossible to reach this code in case of a non-existent session, since we check for it beforehand. Why wrap the page then? Are there different states of session that are not handled by all of the checks before?
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