Authorize Your Custom API Tokens with Node and Express

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.
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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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[@anycaroliny7900]

Great explanation, helped me a lot!

[@progressnwimuelekara2167]

Nice. Got alot of insight on this from here. I didn't consider alot of other factors that you did in the video. Daalu!

[@techhguy]

Legendary Stuff! Would love to see a video on Arrow Functions!

[@IjemmaOnwuzulike]

you got it!