// Tech Talk //

Building Custom APIs With Strapi

Published on June 3, 2020 · Updated on December 21, 2020
Default avatar

By Chris Sev

Sr Developer Advocate

Building Custom APIs With Strapi

Video

About the Talk

Let’s build a custom API. Strapi is a Node CMS that lets us create our own APIs quickly from a clean dashboard. We don’t have to jump into Node code to create a database, database connections, models, etc. Strapi lets us create an API in very little time!

Key Takeaways

  • Building a custom API can be done quickly
  • Building a custom API without writing Node code
  • We can get up and running with a REST API or GraphQL API

Why Watch?

  • You want to build your own APIs, and you want to do it quickly!
  • You want to build a backend API, but don’t have the Node expertise, or want to focus on frontends.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of APIs and what APIs are is good to have.

FAQ on Strapi

  • Does Strapi have draft/published status? Yes
  • Can you schedule content? Yes
  • Are Strapi’s APIs usable by mobile apps? Yes. APIs are platform agnostic and can be used to build anything from website to mobile app.
  • Did you use the free version in this webinar? Yes. Strapi is open source and free.
  • Can I get the source code for Strapi? Yes. It’s on GitHub
  • Is there an API to create/edit users? Yes
  • Are there hooks like beforeSave or beforeCreate? Yes. The Strapi Model has lifecycle methods
  • Can I add 3rd party authentication? Yes. You can add a new auth provider.

About the Presenter

Chris Sev is the founder of scotch.io and Senior Developer Advocate at DigitalOcean. He loves trying to figure out the most efficient and practical way to build apps that we can ship to our customers.

Thanks for learning with the DigitalOcean Community. Check out our offerings for compute, storage, networking, and managed databases.

Learn more about us


Want to learn more? Join the DigitalOcean Community!

Join our DigitalOcean community of over a million developers for free! Get help and share knowledge in our Questions & Answers section, find tutorials and tools that will help you grow as a developer and scale your project or business, and subscribe to topics of interest.

Sign up now
About the authors
Default avatar
Chris Sev

author

Sr Developer Advocate

Founder of scotch.io. Slapping the keyboard until good things happen.



Still looking for an answer?

Ask a questionSearch for more help

Was this helpful?
 
1 Comments
Leave a comment...

This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.

You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!

Hello, how can I add the TinyMCE WYSIWYG to the Strapi built-in text editor? Where to start if I want to change the default language in the Strapi CMS (i.e. English) to one that is not natively supported?

Try DigitalOcean for free

Click here to sign up and get $200 of credit to try our products over 60 days!
Try DigitalOcean for free