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

Elshafie, Khalid; Haider, Mozafar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 180056063X ISBN 13: 9781800560635

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

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 admin panel. It saves API development time through an integrated admin panel that anyone can use. APIs built with Strapi can be consumed using REST or GraphQL from any client.

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 explore Strapi and its wide range of features, as well as understand how to add complex features to the API such as user authentication, data sorting, and pagination. 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 or full-stack developers who have knowledge of API development, and are looking for a better, faster, more flexible way of developing APIs using Strapi. Basic knowledge of Node.js, JavaScript, and the REST API is assumed.

Table of Contents

1. An Introduction to Strapi
2. Building Your First API
3. Strapi Content Types
4. An Overview of Strapi Admin Panel
5. Customizing the API
6. Dealing with Content
7. Authentication and Authorization in Strapi
8. Using and Building Plugins
9. Making Your Application Production-Ready
10. Deploying Strapi
11. Testing the Strapi API

About this title

About the Authors

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 180056063X
• ISBN 13: 9781800560635
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 310