Accessing Vuex state when defining Vue-Router routes

As suggested here, what you can do is to export your store from the file it is in and import it in the routes.js. It will be something like following:

You have one store.js:

import Vuex from 'vuex'

//init store
const store = new Vuex.Store({
    state: {
        globalError: '',
        user: {
            authenticated: false
        }
     },
     mutations: {
         setGlobalError (state, error) {
             state.globalError = error
         }
     }
})

export default store

Now in routes.js, you can have:

import Vue from 'vue'
import VueRouter from 'vue-router'
import store from ./store.js

Vue.use(VueRouter)

//define routes
const routes = [
    { path: '/home', name: 'Home', component: Home },
    { path: '/login', name: 'Login', component: Login },
    { path: '/secret', name: 'Secret', component: SecretPage, meta: { requiresLogin: true }
]

Router.beforeEach((to, from, next) => {
    if (to.matched.some(record => record.meta.requiresLogin) && ???) {
        // You can use store variable here to access globalError or commit mutation 
        next("/Login")
    } else {
        next()
    }
})

In main.js also you can import store:

import Vue from 'vue'
import Vuex from 'vuex'

Vue.use(Vuex)

import store from './store.js'

//init app
const app = new Vue({
    router: Router,
    store,
    template: '<app></app>',
    components: { App }
}).$mount('#app')