by Khalid Elshafie (Author), Mozafar Haider (Author)
Leverage the power of Strapi to build self-hosted, customizable, and performant content APIs
Key Features
Discover how Strapi can help you build APIs quickly and focus on your products and features
Learn how to put Strapi into practice by implementing it in real-world scenarios
Understand how to use Strapi's powerful features to customize your APIs
Book Description
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.
What you will learn
Explore Strapi and understand how it works
Define content types to build APIs quickly and efficiently
Understand authentication and authorization in Strapi
Create production-ready APIs with Strapi
Deploy the Strapi API to various environments, including Heroku and AWS
Use best practices to run the Strapi API in production
Sync permissions to access the API between multiple environments
Write basic tests for API utilities as well as the endpoint
Who this book is for
This book is for backend and frontend
JavaScript developers. Experienced API developers will learn a new,
fast, and flexible way of building APIs, while frontend developers will
be able to take a step toward becoming full-stack developers by learning
how to leverage Strapi for building APIs quickly. Basic knowledge of
JavaScript and REST API concepts is assumed.
Table of Contents
An Introduction to Strapi
Building Our First API
Strapi Content-Types
An Overview of the Strapi Admin Panel
Customizing Our API
Dealing with Content
Authentication and Authorization in Strapi
Using and Building Plugins
Production-Ready Applications
Deploying Strapi
Testing the Strapi API
Appendix: Connecting a React App to Strapi
