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Designing Web APIs with Strapi

By : Khalid Elshafie, Mozafar Haider
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Book Image

Designing Web APIs with Strapi

4 (1)
By: Khalid Elshafie, Mozafar Haider

Overview of this book

Strapi is a Node.js-based, flexible, open-source headless CMS with an integrated admin panel that anyone can use and helps save API development time. APIs built with Strapi can be consumed using REST or GraphQL from any client. With this book, you'll take a hands-on approach to exploring the capabilities of the Strapi platform and creating a custom API from scratch. This book will help JavaScript developers to put their knowledge to work by guiding them through building powerful backend APIs. You'll see how to effortlessly create content structures that can be customized according to your needs, and gain insights into how to write, edit, and manage your content seamlessly with Strapi. As you progress through the chapters, you'll discover a wide range of Strapi features, as well as understand how to add complex features to the API such as user authentication, data sorting, and pagination. You'll not only learn how to find and use existing plugins from the open-source community but also build your own plugins with custom functionality with the Strapi plugin API and add them to the admin panel. Finally, you'll learn how to deploy the API to Heroku and AWS. By the end of this book, you'll be able to build powerful, scalable, and secure APIs using Strapi.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Understanding Strapi
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Section 2: Diving Deeper into Strapi
11
Section 3: Running Strapi in Production

Managing content effectively

We already spent a significant amount of time in the Content Manager, adding Classrooms, Tutorials, and other entities to our system. While many applications might have custom interfaces to edit these content-types (imagine a React application where Users—not admin users—can sign in and manage entities), in many scenarios, you will only manage content through the admin panel. Other than us, the Super Admin users of the Strapi instance, we learned in the previous section that we can also have Editor and Author users who can manage the content as well. In a typical organization, this can be the marketing department, content editors, and other stakeholders.

Once our content starts growing and we have hundreds or even thousands of entities, it becomes tedious to just browse through a long list of table rows. Strapi has some handy functionalities to explore, find, and manage content easily.

Searching and filtering to query our data

Strapi...