How do i create a custom API route?

Derosul

last month

I'm currently working on a custom field which should fetch resources from an external API, I don't want my secrets for that API to be living in the frontend. Is it possible to create a custom API route which proxies the request to the external API?

I can create an Express route in the

server.ts

for it, but I was wondering if Payload has something built in for this.

Kyr
last month
Using Express is the intended way of doing this.
Alessio 🍣
last month
Wouldn't custom endpoints help with that? (
https://payloadcms.com/docs/rest-api/overview#custom-endpoints
)
Derosul
last month
@Alessio 🍣 that's exactly what I was looking for! 🙂

Thank you!

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