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Designing Web APIs with Strapi

This book will help you explore the capabilities of the Strapi platform to create custom APIs. You’ll take a hands-on approach to learning what Strapi is and how it works by building an API from scratch and adding features such as user authentication, data sorting, and pagination.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

10h20m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book 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.

Book content

chapters 10h20m total length

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

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