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Designing Web APIs with Strapi

You're reading from   Designing Web APIs with Strapi Get started with the Strapi headless CMS by building a complete learning management system API

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800560635
Length 310 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Khalid Elshafie Khalid Elshafie
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Understanding Strapi
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Strapi FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Building Our First API 4. Chapter 3: Strapi Content-Types 5. Chapter 4: An Overview of the Strapi Admin Panel 6. Section 2: Diving Deeper into Strapi
7. Chapter 5: Customizing Our API 8. Chapter 6: Dealing with Content 9. Chapter 7: Authentication and Authorization in Strapi 10. Chapter 8: Using and Building Plugins 11. Section 3: Running Strapi in Production
12. Chapter 9: Production-Ready Applications 13. Chapter 10: Deploying Strapi 14. Chapter 11: Testing the Strapi API 15. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Connecting a React App to Strapi

Summary

In this chapter, we built our first REST API to manage our new content-type – classroom. We defined the content-type for a classroom, defining the fields that make up that type, and Strapi built an API for us where we can create new classroom entities, retrieve the list of classrooms, update existing classrooms, and delete classrooms (in other words, perform CRUD operations). We saw how Strapi allowed us to create these endpoints without any coding, saving us potentially hours of development time. We also touched on the permissions model of Strapi, which allows us to interact with these endpoints.

We also dug a bit deeper into what Strapi and the Strapi CLI create for us when we create a new project or add a new content-type. While Strapi makes it extremely easy to create APIs without worrying about specific details, knowing a little bit about what goes on under the hood helps us appreciate our design options and get a feel for how it is architected. Understanding...

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