Dnyandeo: Headless CMS, 3 weeks

[Dnyandeo33]

headless cms

Learning goals

• 🥚 Understanding what a content management system is, and why people use it
• 🥚 Given an existing CMS installation fill in and publish a new piece of content
• 🥚 Perform a simple http call via postman to retrieve a piece of information.
• 🐣 Extend and adapt an existing CMS configuration
• 🐣 Perform a http call with filtering via Postman
• 🐣 Perform a http call with "include" via Postman
• 🐣 Perform a http POST call to create new data
• 🐣 Perform a http PUT call to update existing data
• 🐣 Configuring endpoint permissions (Authentication vs Authorization)
• 🐥 Design a data model from scratch based on user requirements

[Dnyandeo33]

Week 1

Sorry for the late check-in comment. @danielhalasz

I Need Help With:

What is the difference between API & web service?

What went well?

• I understand well headless CMS
• Understood how to check API with path parameters and query parameters.
• Familiar with Postman API testing tool.
• Understood well how to use Strapi 4

Sunday Prep Work

Continue studying...

[danielhalasz]

What is the difference between API & web service?

they are indeed very similar concepts, the main difference is that not all APIs are accessible over the web.
you can read more about it here: https://rapidapi.com/blog/api-vs-web-service/

[Dnyandeo33]

Week 1

I Need Help With:

• Is it possible to create a Home page, Navbar, Buttons, and other pages using strapi 4 ?
• What is GraphQL.

What went well?

• Everything about Strapi 4 - collation type went well. but I didn't try to display it.
• Tried modifying data using API.

Sunday Prep Work

Continue studying Single type and components.

[danielhalasz]

• Is it possible to create a Home page, Navbar, Buttons, and other pages using strapi 4 ?

no, strapi is just a tool to easily create an API and a database connected to it, that can be used by a frontend app to fetch data. you have to write the frontend separately, in any way you like

• What is GraphQL.

it is another kind of query language, but we (and most of the web) are using the REST standard for APIs.

[danielhalasz]

@Dnyandeo33 how was week3 for the strapi module?

[Dnyandeo33]

@danielhalasz Sorry I didn't write check-in because I was sick.
Week3
It was awesome,

• I tried Single type and component type
• Using strapi I create some links, buttons and pages
• Understood well how to use dynamic zone and internalization.