Use static OpenID connect client conf

frontend/api/middleware/auth.js

 const nuxtConfig = require('../../nuxt.config')
 const { Issuer, TokenSet } = require('openid-client')
 
-// Configure openID-Connect client to verify tokens
-// use the configuration that is supplied in ~/nuxt.config.js
-const authStrategy = nuxtConfig.auth.strategies["oas"]
-const openIdIssuer = new Issuer({
-    authorization_endpoint: authStrategy.authorization_endpoint,
-    token_endpoint: authStrategy.access_token_endpoint,
-    userinfo_endpoint: authStrategy.userinfo_endpoint
-});
-var openIdClient;
-(async () => {
-  const openIdIssuer2 = await Issuer.discover(authStrategy.base_url);
-  openIdClient = new openIdIssuer2.Client({
-    client_id: authStrategy.client_id,
-    client_secret: authStrategy.client_secret,
-    redirect_uris: [authStrategy.redirect_uri],
-    response_types: [authStrategy.response_type],
-    grant_types: ["implicit"]
-  })
-})()
 
 
 const authenticateWithToken = function (req, res, next) {
+  // Configure openID-Connect client to verify tokens
+  // use the configuration that is supplied in ~/nuxt.config.js
+  const authStrategy = nuxtConfig.auth.strategies["oas"]
+  const openIdIssuer = new Issuer({
+      authorization_endpoint: authStrategy.authorization_endpoint,
+      token_endpoint: authStrategy.access_token_endpoint,
+      userinfo_endpoint: authStrategy.userinfo_endpoint
+  });
+  const openIdClient = new openIdIssuer.Client({
+      client_id: authStrategy.client_id,
+      client_secret: authStrategy.client_secret,
+      redirect_uris: [authStrategy.redirect_uri],
+      response_types: [authStrategy.response_type],
+      grant_types: ["implicit"]
+    })
   // Get the oAuth2.0 access token from the user request
   // The User cookies are forwarded to this middleware
   // by nuxt add parsed by the cookieParser module which