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Building a WhatsApp Clone with Vue.js and AWS Amplify

Adding Vue Navigation Guard

Explore how to implement Vue navigation guards that restrict access based on authentication status. Learn to protect the home route in a WhatsApp clone project, using Vuex for state and preparing for AWS Amplify backend integration.

We'll cover the following...

Introduction to navigation guard implementation

Now that we have all the components for the authentication part, we can add a navigation guard and protect the home page. Take a look at how our ./router/index.js looks without a navigation guard.

Javascript (babel-node)
import Vue from "vue";
import VueRouter from "vue-router";
import auth from "./routes/auth"
import home from "./routes/home"
import error404 from "./routes/error404"
Vue.use(VueRouter);
const routes = [
  { path: '/', redirect: '/login' },
  ...auth,
  ...home,
  ...error404,
  {
    path: '*',
    redirect: 'error-404',
  },
];
const router = new VueRouter({
  mode: "history",
  base: process.env.BASE_URL,
  routes,
  scrollBehavior() {
    return { x: 0, y: 0 }
  },
});

Implementing the navigation guard

We will use the meta fields that we discussed ...