Building a password-protected link sharing workflow

Ever wondered how to build a clean, secure system for sharing user content via unique links? It gets interesting when you have to separate public access from password-protected private shares.

Here is a breakdown of how the frontend and backend interact to extract IDs, enforce security via bcrypt, and protect against brute-force attacks with rate-limiting:

How It Works

URL Activation: A user opens the link http://localhost:3000/?id=POST_ID.

ID Extraction: The frontend parses the URL and extracts the ID using URLSearchParams.