Build an API Proxy Server - Hide Your API Keys, Rate Limiting & Caching

We will use Node.js & Express to create a server in order to hide public API keys, add rate limiting and caching

💻 Code:

https://github.com/bradtraversy/node-api-proxy-server

Demo App:

https://traversy-weather-app.herokuapp.com

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

2:48 - Dependencies & scripts

4:45 - Basic Express server

6:15 - Environment variables

8:00 - Create the route

10:40 - Request from server

15:50 - Forwarding query params

19:55 - Rate limiting

22:40 - API caching

24:28 - Use server with the client app

26:50 - Deploy to Heroku

30:20 - Environment variables on Heroku