Protecting the frontend routes of our application

Learning Highlights

• 0:18

  Learn how to implement route protection in frontend applications by validating JWT tokens to ensure only authenticated users can access private pages.

• 1:20

  Understanding the authentication flow: when users request protected pages while logged out, they're redirected to sign-in and then back to their originally requested page for smoother UX.

• 1:59

  The key to protecting routes is adding validation code at the top of each page that checks if the JWT token exists and is valid using Supabase methods.

• 3:54

  How to test authentication protection using incognito mode to verify unauthenticated users are blocked from accessing protected pages and redirected to sign-in.