---
title: "Guarding Your Routes in NestJS"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/guarding-your-routes-in-nestjs-x0llsg4me
source_url: https://amplication.com/blog/guarding-your-routes-in-nestjs
type: article
source: "Amplication"
published: 2023-03-21T15:20:53.257Z
updated: 2023-08-12T02:30:07.207Z
tags: ["amplication", "backend", "github", "nestjs", "security"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 12
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Guarding Your Routes in NestJS

**[Amplication](https://daily.dev/sources/amplication)** · 7 min read · 12 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

NestJS Guards are classes with a single goal to determine whether the route handler should handle a request. They can be used to prevent unauthorized access to endpoints in your application by checking if a user has the necessary permissions to access a specific resource. The Guards we write can protect either individual route handlers or a group of route handlers.

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