📅 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.tsx to 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 SubscriptionPage with 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.