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Stop Writing if (role === "admin") in React. It's a Code Smell.
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Stop Writing if (role === "admin") in React. It's a Code Smell.

via Dev.to ReactMohame Ali Sraieb4h ago

I'm going to say it: 👉 Most React apps handle authorization terribly. Yeah... even the "well-structured" ones. 😬 The Problem Nobody Talks About If your codebase looks like this: if ( user . role === " admin " ) { ... } or worse: if ( user . role === " admin " || ( user . role === " manager " && user . permissions . includes ( " edit " )) ) { ... } You already have a problem. And it's only going to get worse as your app grows. Why? Because authorization logic: leaks into every component\ gets duplicated everywhere\ becomes impossible to reason about\ breaks silently when roles evolve 👉 It's not just messy --- it's fragile architecture . 🧠 The Real Issue We treat authorization like a UI concern. It's not. It's business logic . And mixing business logic with UI is one of the fastest ways to kill scalability. 🔥 So I Built Something About It After hitting this wall over and over while building dashboards and SaaS apps, I decided to fix it. I created react-ability-kit --- a type-safe authori

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