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François Voron
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François Voron graduated from the University of Saint-Étienne (France) and the University of Alicante (Spain) with a master's degree in machine learning and data mining. A full stack web developer and a data scientist, François has a proven track record working in the SaaS industry, with a special focus on Python backends and REST APIs. He is also the creator and maintainer of FastAPI Users, the #1 authentication library for FastAPI, and is one of the top experts in the FastAPI community.
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Configuring CORS and protecting against CSRF attacks

Nowadays, numerous pieces of software are designed to be used in a browser through an interface built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Traditionally, web servers were responsible for handling browser requests and returning an HTML response to be shown to the user. This is a common use case for frameworks such as Django.

For a few years now, there has been a shift underway in that pattern. With the emergence of JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, React, and Vue, we tend to have a clear separation between the frontend, a highly interactive user interface powered by JavaScript, and the backend. Thus, those backends are now only responsible for data storage and retrieving and executing business logic. This is a task that REST APIs are very good at! From the JavaScript code, the user interface can then just spawn requests to your API and handle the result to present it.

However, we must still handle authentication: we want our...

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François Voron

François Voron graduated from the University of Saint-Étienne (France) and the University of Alicante (Spain) with a master's degree in machine learning and data mining. A full stack web developer and a data scientist, François has a proven track record working in the SaaS industry, with a special focus on Python backends and REST APIs. He is also the creator and maintainer of FastAPI Users, the #1 authentication library for FastAPI, and is one of the top experts in the FastAPI community.
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