hello?

try using middleware to redirect logged in users who navigate to "/" to "/dashboard" and for not logged in redirect "/" to "/home"?

the problem isn't that

it's that I want to maintain the base domain name

and show either the dashboard or the home page

there's probably some way to make it work with how you define routes and use middleware: https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/routing/defining-routes

Just use the conditional routing
If the user is logged just use
IsLoggedIn then dashboard or else home

well if they were components that would be possible

but they are pages

I've seen it in github when the user is logged in and not

the url stays the same for both

maybe this: https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/routing/parallel-routes

but you kept saying /dashboard and /home, now you're saying "url stays same for both" so i don't know what you want

that gives me an idea.

lemme try something

You can also use rewrites for this.

https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/functions/next-response#rewrite

I use it to display the url without the locale, for example if the user visits /en/about the request is rewritten to /about. In the same way you can rewrite /dashboard to / and your users would see the dashboard page with a clean home url in the browser.