Stop managing RBAC and feature flags separately in React
Access control gets messy faster than most people expect. Most apps handle: RBAC (roles & permissions) Feature flags Experiments Plan-based access …as separate systems. That usually leads to: d...

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Access control gets messy faster than most people expect. Most apps handle: RBAC (roles & permissions) Feature flags Experiments Plan-based access …as separate systems. That usually leads to: duplicated logic across frontend and backend inconsistent behavior over time harder scaling as the product grows The problem At small scale, this works fine. But as your app grows: permissions live in one place feature flags in another experiments somewhere else 👉 Now your logic is fragmented. You end up asking: “Is this user allowed?” “Is this feature enabled?” “Is this experiment active?” …in multiple places, with different rules. A better approach Instead of managing all of this separately, unify everything into a single access layer. 👉 Define access once 👉 Use it everywhere Example const canEdit = access.can("edit_post", user) if (canEdit) { return <EditButton /> } Same logic: frontend backend APIs What I’ve been building I’ve been working on a small library called React Access En