Redirect to login page in Vue.js

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to set up your router so that if a user is not authenticated it redirects to /login page.

This is a very common case to most of the single page applications with authentication.

We’ll be using Vuex in this example. If you’re not using Vuex along with Vue you should consider using it. It was created by the mighty Evan You, a guy who created Vue.js, and it makes your life easier.

Vue.js redirect to /login example

beforeCreate () {
  if (this.$store.state.isLogged) {
    this.$router.push({ name: 'login' })
  }
}

We can use beforeCreated() hook to redirect unauthenticated user to /login page. Remember the Vue.js lifecycle hooks?

In the example above we check if the user’s current state is set to isLogged: true, if false we redirect a user to /login page.

This is how the Vuex getter for isLogged looks like:

isLogged: state => {
  return state.isLogged
}

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PS: Make sure you check other Vue.js tutorials, e.g. how to display a random image in Vue.js.