Tutorial: How can I handle common checks across different endpoints in an Express application?

It’s quite common if you’re building an API which serves and manipulates private data that you’ll want to check that a client has authorization to access specific API endpoints. Express has a powerful feature which can help you achieve this (or any other kind of common check): middleware functions.https://simonplend.com/how-can-i-handle-common-checks-across-different-endpoints-in-an-express-application/This blog post will guide you through writing your own Express middleware functions to perform common checks in your application.

Submitted July 28, 2020 at 11:28AM by simonplend