Introduction

• This project has some routes that I don´t want to be available in production for users.

• Goal one is to protect some routes in production where users can't access it.

• Goal two is to keep all routes available ONLY in local env.

• For that the solution is to set a cookie in the browser to unlock to hidden routes.

Requirements

• Firefox

• Cookie-editor extension

How to set up

• Install the Cookie Editor extension:

• Protect the routes in the Laravel routes file and set the cookie in the env file:

• Set the cookie in the .env file:

Test it

• Protected routes WITHOUT the defined cookie:

• Protected routes WITH the defined cookie:

Git diagram

Demonstration

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