title: React + Wordpress + Woocommerce REST API 401 - get products without AUTH
body: <p>I am building a webshop with React, Wordpress v4 and <a href="http://woocommerce.github.io/woocommerce-rest-api-docs/#introduction" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Woocommerce Rest api v2</a>.</p>
  
  <p>I am a bit confused on how to proceed with authentication. I understand that for some requests like place an order or create a new product I need to authenticate.</p>
  
  <p>But I also need to be able to just retrieve all products for a customer who visits the site for the first time and just wants to browse through all our products. 
  What is the best practice here?</p>
  
  <p>My thoughts are:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Create a public, separate layer with PHP or Node which securely stores the Woocommerce API keys and provides public endpoints (only <code>GET</code>, i.e. <code>GET /products</code>)</li>
  <li>Access those endpoints via JS/React and render the products</li>
  <li>Create another separate layer for placing orders which requires the costumer to authenticate (i.e. <code>POST /orders</code>)</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Also, instead of adding a separate layer I could use the Wordpress function <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/extending-the-rest-api/adding-custom-endpoints/" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>add_action( 'rest_api_init',...</code></a></p>
  
  <p>Is there a better way to do it or am I missing something? Or can I retrieve the Woocommerce Products somehow via the Wordpress API endpoints without api keys?</p>