Designing Web APIs with Strapi: Get started with the Strapi headless CMS by building a complete learning management system API

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.

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Designing Web APIs with Strapi: Get started with the Strapi headless CMS by building a complete learning management system API

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.

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Designing Web APIs with Strapi: Get started with the Strapi headless CMS by building a complete learning management system API

Designing Web APIs with Strapi: Get started with the Strapi headless CMS by building a complete learning management system API

Designing Web APIs with Strapi: Get started with the Strapi headless CMS by building a complete learning management system API

Designing Web APIs with Strapi: Get started with the Strapi headless CMS by building a complete learning management system API

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781800566705
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication date: 02/28/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 310
File size: 19 MB
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About the Author

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.


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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