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

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This course demonstrates how to build a Node.js and Express API proxy server that stores API keys in environment variables, forwards query parameters to a public API, and adds rate limiting and response caching. It also shows connecting the proxy to a client app and deploying it to Heroku.

Syllabus

- Intro.
- Dependencies & scripts.
- Basic Express server.
- Environment variables.
- Create the route .
- Request from server.
- Forwarding query params.
- Rate limiting.
- API caching.
- Use server with the client app.
- Deploy to Heroku.
- Environment variables on Heroku.

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