Party Props Updates: June 19, 2025
June 19, 2025
Authentication overhauled to work with our new hosting setup
Today was a big infrastructure day. We migrated our authentication system from session cookies to JWT tokens so that everything works cleanly across our Firebase and Cloud Run hosting setup. On the surface the app looks the same, but a lot had to move behind the scenes to make logins reliable again.
- Switched to JWT-based auth throughout the API, replacing the previous cookie-session approach
- Fixed the AnswerEntry page so builders are properly redirected after logging in
- Made guest-facing routes (submitting predictions, viewing the form) publicly accessible without any auth token, so your guests never hit a login wall
- Increased API rate limits to handle more simultaneous traffic
Under the hood we also sorted out the environment configuration so the frontend correctly points to the right API in every environment. Messy but necessary, and now it is solid.