Optimize your API requests with Strapi

Hello guys, today I’ll show you how to pass from this 🥴


to this 🥺🎉

TL;DR



Strapi allow you to remove attributes you don’t want the API response shows to the frontend. You might have various reasons but some of those could be: security or improve your API performances.


To do so, privateAttributes is what you need.

• First open your code editor, then your 📁api folder to the endpoint you want to edit.
• On the options property, you just have to add privateAttributes key. It's an array of string.
• Fill it with attributes you want to keep private.

This also works with/for components.

Okay, Yodas! all you have to do now is save and refresh your browser 🙂


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