Python FastAPI Tutorial (Part 11): Authorization - Protecting Routes and Verifying Current User

In this video, we'll be learning how to protect our FastAPI routes with proper authorization. We'll build a reusable get_current_user dependency that validates tokens and returns the authenticated user, remove the hardcoded user_id from our schemas and frontend, add ownership checks so users can only edit and delete their own content, and build an Account page for profile management. By the end of this tutorial, our application will have a complete authorization layer on top of the authentication system we built in the previous video. Let's get started...

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