📅 2025-05-20 — Session: Implemented Paywall and Subscription System in React
🕒 18:30–19:00
🏷️ Labels: React, Paywall, Subscription, Stripe, Authentication
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal:
The goal of this session was to implement a comprehensive paywall and subscription system within a React application, integrating modern authentication methods and enhancing user experience.
Key Activities:
- Access Control and Paywall Implementation: Modified
wrappers/auth.tsxto include subscription-based access control, with code examples and development environment simulation. - Subscription Circuit and Stripe Integration: Detailed steps for implementing a paid subscription system, including creating a subscription page and integrating with Stripe.
- Login Page Subscription Logic: Discussed redirection logic to ensure users without premium plans are guided to the subscription page, improving user experience.
- Modern Authentication UI: Explored a new UI for login/register, potentially serving as a parallel system, using Tailwind CSS.
- Paywall Strategy and User Validation: Proposed a strategy for paywall and access control, identifying protected pages and implementing user plan validation.
- Knowledge Module Management: Managed the
knowledge/module, discussing interactions and subscription validation options. - RAGFlow Fork Paywall Implementation: Planned paywall implementation in RAGFlow fork, including authentication modifications and subscription page creation.
- React Project Structure Organization: Outlined a systematic structure for React project pages to promote modularity.
- Login and Subscription Page Clarification: Clarified structural differences between login and subscription pages, emphasizing distinct functionalities.
- Stripe Integration for SubscriptionPage: Enhanced
SubscriptionPagewith Stripe integration, including UI structure and server route implementation.
Achievements:
- Successfully outlined and initiated the implementation of a paywall and subscription system.
- Integrated Stripe for payment processing and enhanced the SubscriptionPage.
- Improved user experience with a modern authentication UI and clear redirection logic.
Pending Tasks:
- Complete the full integration of the paywall system in the RAGFlow fork.
- Finalize the modern authentication UI implementation and test its effectiveness.
- Ensure thorough testing of the Stripe integration and subscription logic.