Controllers

• https://github.com/metosin/reitit/tree/master/examples/frontend-controllers

Controllers run code when a route is entered and left. This can be useful to:

• Load resources
• Update application state

Authentication

Controllers can be used to load resources from a server. If and when your API requires authentication you will need to implement logic to prevent controllers trying to do requests if user isn't authenticated yet.

Run controllers and check authentication

If you have both unauthenticated and authenticated resources, you can run the controllers always and then check the authentication status on controller code, or on the code called from controllers (e.g. re-frame event handler).

Disable controllers until user is authenticated

If all your resources require authentication an easy way to prevent bad requests is to enable controllers only after authentication is done. To do this you can check authentication status and call apply-controllers only after authentication is done (also remember to manually call apply-controllers with current match when authentication is done). Or if no navigation is possible before authentication is done, you can start the router only after authentication is done.

Alternatives

Similar solution could be used to describe required resources as data (maybe even GraphQL query) per route, and then have code automatically load missing resources.