Hybrid Mobile Development with Ionic

Sensitive data outside the app

In our application, there might be some external APIs that we are using for fetching third- party content into our application. For this, you will get some kind of secret_keys specific to your account, which will be used when you hit their servers. Here we have to make sure that we don't place any of these keys inside your Ionic application as someone can easily extract that from your code base. Here, the best way is to make a proxy request on your server or a custom request on your server-side code that will add the keys to the APIs calls. So you will be calling your server and then your server will pass a request to a third-party service with secret_key attached to the new request. In response the same response ...