In my last video, I covered how to generate your own API tokens for authentication. In this vieo, I show you how to use those tokens to actually authenticate into your server.

Igbo API GitHub: https://github.com/ijemmao/igbo_api

Timestamps:

• 0:00 Intro
• 0:27 How Does API Token Validation Work?
• 0:59 Validate API Key Middleware
• 2:15 Bypassing all API Validation with a MAIN_KEY
• 4:00 What’s the Purpose of Matching Origins with API Keys?
• 6:49 Track Usage of Developer Token
• 8:28 Catching Errors and Handling Non-Existing Developer Objects
• 9:08 Demo: Using API Tokens in the Igbo API Docs Site
• 11:34 Contribute to the project!

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