🗺️ Middleware

[ryanflorence]

• RFC: #7642
• Supersedes https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/issues/9566

[knownasilya]

What's the status on this? Specifically asking for ReactRouter because the root loader doesn't run first there and it seems like everyone using ReactRouter (personally as a stepping stone to Remix) is floundering (see https://github.com/remix-run/react-router/discussions/9327) on how to do authentication.

[nilansaha]

Is there any update on this? Authentication is probably the biggest use case.

[chasoft]

My approach for this is:

• using middleware to check for logged-in status and inject it into a context variable.
• because we need to check authentication for every single loader, I created a Higher-Order Function (HOF) to handle this automatically.

However, I'm unable to find unstable_dataStrategy in version 7.

[infiniteluke]

@chasoft https://reactrouter.com/en/main/routers/create-browser-router#middleware

[jrmyio]

@chasoft https://reactrouter.com/en/main/routers/create-browser-router#middleware

We do still need a way to be able to change dataStrategy using RR7 vite plugin though.

[chinanderm]

@infiniteluke Using the new routes.ts pattern, there is nothing similar to RRv6 handle to set up middleware.