I am using an Express App with Create React App. I want to serve videos for an education website but restrict access to users only logged in.
My understanding is I can use a digital ocean space to serve content through a CDN using an API key. So my server would make the request with the API key.
Then serve the content to the client. What I am not sure about is what is the point of having a CDN if the content is downloaded to the server and sent to the client. Can you have the content go straight from the CDN to the client?
Without having to store the API key in the front end?
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