Password protecting individual pages

Baffour · 2025-08-12T10:09:47.428+00:00

Hi all, trying to figure out how I'd go about password protecting individual pages of a site with Nordcraft (portfolio site with some case studies protected).I think I can do this with standard Auth with a hardcoded username (and would appreciate tips on how I can do this without hosting a back end myself just for Auth )But if I do this in nordcraft how is my site content actually packaged. Will there be a publicly available bundle that contains my site content, or will auth be enough to protect it?

Baffour

16 days ago

Hi all, trying to figure out how I'd go about password protecting individual pages of a site with Nordcraft (portfolio site with some case studies protected).

I think I can do this with standard Auth with a hardcoded username (and would appreciate tips on how I can do this without hosting a back end myself just for Auth 😅)

But if I do this in nordcraft how is my site content actually packaged. Will there be a publicly available bundle that contains my site content, or will auth be enough to protect it?
Armand

16 days ago

Nordcraft is [frontend only](https://docs.nordcraft.com/connecting-data/overview#why-nordcraft-focuses-on-the-front-end). If you want any kind of authentication you'd have to use a backend.

Here is some more info on authentication and Nordcraft: https://docs.nordcraft.com/connecting-data/authentication
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Armand

16 days ago

Xano and Supabase are probably the most popular backends that people in this community use with Nordcraft.

This video explains how to set it up with Supabase: https://youtu.be/5gWonN_51A4?feature=shared

And I'd recommend to go through all the videos in the series to get a good idea of the basics in Nordcraft.

And if you get stuck with anything, just ask here 🙂
Lucas G

16 days ago

You could technically set a cookie to do this without a backend
But it wouldn’t be real auth obviously
You would just check if cookie exists with correct value and not show content if not
Lucas G

16 days ago

Could be like today’s date encoded or something lol
Then at least the value changes 😂
Baffour

15 days ago

Thanks both. I guess on the bundling question though, lets say I have a page I protect with auth via my back-end. Is it actually protected? As I imagine it forms part of the bundle. Would the only way to be truly secure to put my content in a CMS and access that via my back-end only when authenticated?
@Baffour
Thanks both. I guess on the bundling question though, lets say I have a page I protect with auth via my back-end. Is it actually protected? As I imagine it forms part of the bundle. Would the only way to be truly secure to put my content in a CMS and access that via my back-end only when authenticated?
Lucas G

15 days ago

If the content is static then technically it would be loaded, yeah, assuming you're not handling redirects server-side
The point of auth is that you're authenticating and authorizing who can view the content

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