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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800560635

Length 310 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Node.js

Concepts

CMS

Authors (2):

Khalid Elshafie

Mozafar Haider

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

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

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Appendix: Connecting a React App to Strapi

About the React app

The sample app we will use here is a simple and minimal app built with ReactJS to illustrate how can we hook our API to a frontend app.

Figure 1: Example of the frontend app after startup

Figure 1: Example of the frontend app after startup

The React app allows students to log in, see a list of classrooms, enroll in a classroom, and see the classroom tutorials. The tech stack for the app is as follows:

ReactJS (TypeScript)
Reach Router: The routing component
Material UI: Used to build the UI components
Axios: HTTP library to communicate with our Strapi API
ReactPlayer: A React library to work with YouTube videos

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Authors (2)

Elshafie

Elshafie

Khalid Elshafie is an experienced, senior full stack developer/software engineer with over 10 years of experience working across multiple frontend and backend technologies involved in designing and developing scalable web and mobile applications using multiple technologies, as well as in a variety of workplaces, from start-ups to larger consultancies. Khalid's passion for software engineering extends to the creation of barmaga.io, with Mozafar, where he has 45+ hours of video content on JavaScript, React.js, AWS and Serverless, Node.js, and Strapi. He also has a well-established YouTube channel with content focused on teaching programming.

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Haider

Haider

Mozafar Haider is a senior full stack engineer with over 15 years of experience working in organizations ranging from early-stage start-ups to scale-ups and corporates, in Barcelona, London, and Glasgow, among other places. He's passionate about teaching coding, especially to groups under-represented in tech, and was one of the co-founders of a coding school for refugees based in Glasgow. He also created, along with Khalid, barmaga.io, a platform for teaching coding in Amharic, Arabic, and Swahili.

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