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Creating an Authenticated API on DigitalOcean
By Chris Sev
Sr Developer Advocate
Video
About the Talk
We create an API that has authentication and authorization so that certain resources are only accessible by certain users.
What You’ll Learn
- How to build an authenticated API
- How to make calls to an authenticated API
- How to protect certain areas
This Talk is Designed For
DigitalOcean users that want to protect certain parts of their API.
Prerequisites
A little understanding of how APIs work.
About the Presenter
Chris Sev is the founder of scotch.io and Senior Developer Advocate at DigitalOcean. He loves trying to figure out the most efficient and practical way to build apps that we can ship to our customers.
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Question about overriding the
find()controller.If I don’t override anything, by default hitting the
localhost:1337/postsurl returns an array of all the posts.If I add an
aync find()function into the controller (I’m adding url query param to also filter posts by specific user), and even just do astrapi.query('post').find(), the result is now an object with keys rather than an array?Does it not use
strapi.query('post').find()by default, and if it does, how come manually telling it to usestrapi.query('post').find()doesn’t return the results as an array?Great video!