Netlify Functions - Best Practice for handling refresh tokens?

[jen]

Hey @ardiewen,
This post discusses a few options:

Best Practices for Storing Tokens

Greetings. We are working on a Gatsby site that we’re hoping to deploy to Netlify. One of the APIs we are accessing (Getty Images) we have a private API key / secret that we’re storing in Netlify server side variables and using it to access the API. Upon the first API request the API will return a token that should use to access any further API calls for 30 min after which we would be issued a new token. My question is what is the Netlify best practice for storing this token server side and…

They boil down to:

1. use a function hooked up to a Fauna DB database to persist the token
2. see if a custom Build Plugin would work for this use case- this method hasn’t been tried/tested before

Let us know if that helps you get started or if we can answer any other questions!