Authenticating User Endpoints

The video tutorial focuses on integrating authentication into user routes, specifically for updating and deleting user profiles. It explains the process of refactoring these routes to ensure only authenticated users can modify their own profiles. The tutorial also covers testing these changes using Postman and concludes with a brief introduction to task-related routes, which will be covered in the next lesson.

What are the important routes that need authentication in the user management system?

How does the authentication middleware affect the user routes?

Explain the changes made to the user deletion route to ensure proper authentication.

What are the potential risks of allowing users to delete other users' profiles?

Describe the process of refactoring the update user profile route.

Why is it important to restrict user profile updates to authenticated users only?

What is the significance of using 'request.user' in the context of updating a user profile?

What steps should be taken to test the user profile update functionality?

What changes were made to the URL structure for user-related routes?

Summarize the overall changes made to the user routes in the application.