Feature request: Route guards

I’d like to see some form of route guards added, this would check for a truthy statement before attempting to load the component.

This would be useful, with server side guards for the initial load, as when using Link’s route attribute it does not reload the page.

Ideal example usage:

const routes = module.exports = require('next-routes')();

const guard = function(route) {

    // Check JWT tokens
    // ...etc
    return true;
}

// Singular guards
routes.add('/', 'index').guard(guard);

// Multiple guards
routes.add('/', 'index').guard([guard, guard]);

[fridays]

I think getInitialProps is the best place to do this to have it work on both server and client routing

[dextermb]

@dextermb Hey is there any reason this was closed? Did you figure out how to guard? Looking to do exit intent popup when a user abandons cart.

EDIT: I see in the docs it can be done. https://nextjs.org/docs/#intercepting-popstate

I closed it as I used getInitialProps as suggested by @fridays. While I still would like to see this feature added, I’ll probably end up doing it in my own fork as this repository doesn’t seem to be very active.