Create protected routes using React Router and Firebase Authentication

Problem

Let’s say you are trying to build a web application using React and Firebase. As of right now, you have completed the following steps:

1. Created a blank, single page application: npx create-react-app .
2. Installed the Firebase npm package: npm install --save firebase
3. Added Firebase in the index.js file of your React: firebase.initializeApp(firebaseConfig);
4. Created a basic signup and login UI
5. Added Firebase Authentication code

Your next step is to route the user to a protected page. However, this brings up a few scary questions:

• How do I add multiple pages to my single page application?
• How do I create a protected route in React?
• How do I tie this to Firebase Authentication?

Solution

You first need to add React Router to your project. React Router is a tool that allows you to handle routes in a web app instead of handling them on a server.

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