Prevent showing the login page when the user is already logged in

[BehroozBvk]

• Laravel Version: 12.18.0
• Nova Version: 5.7.3
• PHP Version: 8.4.1
• Database Driver & Version: Mysql 8.0.40
• Operating System and Version: MacBook Pro
• Browser type and version: Chrome 137.0.7151.104
• Reproduction Repository: https://gitlab.com/bvk-dev/laravel-nova

Description:

Hi guys!
I’m using Laravel 12 and Nova 5, Everything is working fine so far, but I ran into an issue:

When a user is already logged in (authenticated) and navigates to the /nova/login URL, instead of redirecting to the dashboard page (like /nova/dashboards/main or the main Nova page), it still shows the login page.

✅ What I expected:
If the user is already logged in and tries to access the login page, they should be redirected to the dashboard page.

❌ What happens instead:
The login form is shown again to the authenticated user.

Detailed steps to reproduce the issue on a fresh Nova installation:

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[BehroozBvk]

Finally, after a lot of testing and searching, I was able to solve this bug this way. I wonder why this problem hasn't been seen in Nova until now.

I defined a new middleware RedirectIfAuthenticated and placed it in the Nova middleware configuration section config/nova.php, ‍‍‍‍ and the problem was solved.

RedirectIfAuthenticated.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
use Closure;
use Laravel\Nova\Nova;
use Laravel\Nova\Util;

class RedirectIfAuthenticated
{
    public function handle(Request $request, Closure $next, ...$guards)
    {
        $guards = empty($guards) ? [null] : $guards;

       if (Auth::guard(Util::userGuard())->check()) {
            if ($request->is(ltrim(Nova::path(), '/') . '/login')) {
                return redirect(route('nova.pages.dashboard'));
            }
        }
        return $next($request);
    }
}

config/nova.php

.
.
.
 'middleware' => [
        'web',
        \App\Http\Middleware\RedirectIfAuthenticated::class,
        \Laravel\Nova\Http\Middleware\HandleInertiaRequests::class,
        'nova:serving',
    ],
.
.

[crynobone]

I wonder why this problem hasn't been seen in Nova until now.

Because no one has ever experienced this issue, middleware shouldn't contain "the suggested middleware".