
Build Production-Safe API: Crucial Things Most Junior Devs and Beginners Neglect
I will share 3 things you need to understand and implement in every API system you will build or have already built. It's important you know that all these principles can be implemented in any language. Learn how to build production-safe API systems: 1. Implement CORS: CORS stands for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing, CORS is a security mechanism that the server uses to allow or reject requests from certain origins from accessing resources. What this means is you can specifically tell your server to only allow requests from one or multiple domain origins only, and every other request that's not from these origins will be rejected. There are cases you will want to use the wildcard "*" which tells your server any origin can access its resources. When should I implement this? This is recommended for all public endpoints. The only case this may not be needed is when you don't want to restrict any origin from accessing server resources. Even if that public endpoint is only used by your applica
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