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Creating back-end APIs with BoltDatabase

Creating back-end APIs with BoltDatabase - Bolt Tutorial

From the course: Vibe Coding with Bolt.new

Creating back-end APIs with BoltDatabase

Now, let's add some AI into our task tracker. We're going to incorporate a task prioritizer using an OpenAI model. So let's go back into Bolt, and go through an outline of what we're going to do. Let's click on the settings icon here at the top, and go into secrets. So what we're going to do is we're going to add an OpenAI API key which will let us access the models. Once we add this in, we're going to deploy something called a server function. This server function will allow us to call the OpenAI API to retrieve our AI result. We want to deploy a server function because we don't want to put our OpenAI API key into our frontend. Let me show you what that means. If we exit and go back to our task tracker, I can right-click and click Inspect on Chrome. If I go into Console, Elements or Sources, I can see the HTML and the JavaScript that's been generated. Now, if my OpenAI API key is in here, that means any user who's using my application will be able to pull this information out and use…

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