NestJS · Junior · Question 53 of 75

How can you mark some routes as public when an auth guard is global?

✓Correct answer: Create a @Public() decorator that sets metadata, and read it in the guard with Reflector to skip the check
2Remove the guard from main.ts for each route
3Put public routes in a separate Nest app

Explanation

Metadata plus Reflector is the standard way for guards and interceptors to read route-level settings.

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