Leverage the power of Strapi to build self-hosted, customizable, and
performant content APIs
Key Features:
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Discover how Strapi can help you build APIs quickly and focus on your
products and features
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Learn how to put Strapi into practice by implementing it in real-world
scenarios
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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:
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Explore Strapi and understand how it works
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Define content types to build APIs quickly and efficiently
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Understand authentication and authorization in Strapi
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Create production-ready APIs with Strapi
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Deploy the Strapi API to various environments, including Heroku and
AWS
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Use best practices to run the Strapi API in production
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Sync permissions to access the API between multiple environments
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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.
