I have no intention of flexing; wanna-be-devs that provide faulthy information to the public on the other hand, is a problem.
I guess you missed the entire article title. "Hide your API Keys with Netlify Functions"
Meaning, your method won't work. As Netlify is based on static content, where everything is run, executed and loaded in the clients browser. IF you where to get your solution to work; then you would need a public endpoint where the key can be retrieved, and as I've said multiple times, and as you are now repeating, is absurd.
"Creating a server-side function for airtable", the op is using server side code, yes, on Netlify. Not just any random server.
The entire article is based on Netlify, running backend code with netlify, to achieve the goal of hiding your API key. The OP is writing everything that needs to be written, and you're comment is not only adding confusion to those who don't know better (Including yourself), it's also taken entirely out of context and has absolutely no relevance to the written article.
I get that you're the kind of person that refuse to admit that you're wrong, and simply invent context and meaning to whatever bullshit you spit out.
But for future reference, it's a huge benefit to everyone reading articles such as these if people who actually knew what they where talking about commented on the "wrong-doings".
You have yet to explain how hiding a key server-side is wrong or incorrect. You say that its impossible to have server-side code with Netlify (which may be because I have not used it), but that is not what OP said.
Get over yourself; you're just looking for a problem and you picked the least appropriate comment to do so. There's no doubt that someone who was thinking about storing their API keys in a code repo as OP proposed that will benefit from the explanation of how that is a poor choice. That is 100% platform independent.
Cool that you know so much about Netlify though. I bet that's super useful.
Dude, get over yourself; you're just looking to add confusion. There is no doubt that the OP wrote this article specifically to avoid storing the API key in the code, considering that would reveal it to the world, being static and all :)
The facts are that there is only one person flexing; and that's you, from your very first comment where you add irrelevant context to every reply you have made since.
The server-side element doesn't even have anything to do with Netlify. It's airtable. I mean, I don't see how you aren't getting this (maybe just bad troll?)
"So this fetch request will just call the netlify function and pass the form fields into the server-side function and that server-side function is the one calling the Airtable API."
Stop the try-hard act. You'll never learn anything with that attitude.
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LOL! Now you're truly showing how incompetent you are.
Airtable is only relevant as that's the API he is trying to communicate with from Netlify. And he is trying to make calls to Airtable from Netlify without revealing the API token, considering Netlify sites are run on a CDN and requires the site to be static.
Airtable is his chosen third-party API, it has no relevance to his problem or the article in question; it could be any API. I guess your next advice is fetch the API client key directly from the API right?
Idiot. You are the one that needs to listen, the one with a lot to learn. After all, I'm the one with experience here, you're just the troll throwing out random comments with no context :)
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I have no intention of flexing; wanna-be-devs that provide faulthy information to the public on the other hand, is a problem.
I guess you missed the entire article title. "Hide your API Keys with Netlify Functions"
Meaning, your method won't work. As Netlify is based on static content, where everything is run, executed and loaded in the clients browser. IF you where to get your solution to work; then you would need a public endpoint where the key can be retrieved, and as I've said multiple times, and as you are now repeating, is absurd.
"Creating a server-side function for airtable", the op is using server side code, yes, on Netlify. Not just any random server.
The entire article is based on Netlify, running backend code with netlify, to achieve the goal of hiding your API key. The OP is writing everything that needs to be written, and you're comment is not only adding confusion to those who don't know better (Including yourself), it's also taken entirely out of context and has absolutely no relevance to the written article.
I get that you're the kind of person that refuse to admit that you're wrong, and simply invent context and meaning to whatever bullshit you spit out.
But for future reference, it's a huge benefit to everyone reading articles such as these if people who actually knew what they where talking about commented on the "wrong-doings".
You have yet to explain how hiding a key server-side is wrong or incorrect. You say that its impossible to have server-side code with Netlify (which may be because I have not used it), but that is not what OP said.
Get over yourself; you're just looking for a problem and you picked the least appropriate comment to do so. There's no doubt that someone who was thinking about storing their API keys in a code repo as OP proposed that will benefit from the explanation of how that is a poor choice. That is 100% platform independent.
Cool that you know so much about Netlify though. I bet that's super useful.
Dude, get over yourself; you're just looking to add confusion. There is no doubt that the OP wrote this article specifically to avoid storing the API key in the code, considering that would reveal it to the world, being static and all :)
The facts are that there is only one person flexing; and that's you, from your very first comment where you add irrelevant context to every reply you have made since.
The server-side element doesn't even have anything to do with Netlify. It's airtable. I mean, I don't see how you aren't getting this (maybe just bad troll?)
"So this fetch request will just call the netlify function and pass the form fields into the server-side function and that server-side function is the one calling the Airtable API."
Stop the try-hard act. You'll never learn anything with that attitude.
LOL! Now you're truly showing how incompetent you are.
Airtable is only relevant as that's the API he is trying to communicate with from Netlify. And he is trying to make calls to Airtable from Netlify without revealing the API token, considering Netlify sites are run on a CDN and requires the site to be static.
Airtable is his chosen third-party API, it has no relevance to his problem or the article in question; it could be any API. I guess your next advice is fetch the API client key directly from the API right?
Idiot. You are the one that needs to listen, the one with a lot to learn. After all, I'm the one with experience here, you're just the troll throwing out random comments with no context :)