The Complete Strapi™ Course with Plugins and Deployment - Integrating the Third-Party GitHub API

The video tutorial explains how to connect a plugin to a GitHub profile by using the Octokit library for API interaction. It covers the installation of the library, setting up authorization headers for authenticated requests, generating a personal access token on GitHub, and securely storing the token in an environment variable. The tutorial ensures that the plugin can access public repositories while maintaining security best practices.

Why is it not a best practice to hard code the GitHub token in the plugin code?

How do you include the Authorization header in API calls to the GitHub backend?