Michael: Headless-cms, 3 Weeks

[MichaelMugaiga]

Learning Objectives

• 🥚 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

[MichaelMugaiga]

Week 1

I Need Help With:

• No help needed at the moment

What went well?

• Understanding CMS

What went less well?

• Correcting issues in the repo related to the node version

Lessons Learned

• Strapi content management system
• HTTP calls
• Postman

[MichaelMugaiga]

Week 2

I Need Help With:

• No help needed at the moment

What went well?

• Understanding Postman endpoint interaction methods and Response Codes.

What went less well?

• Nothing for now

Lessons Learned

• Users & Permissions
• How to import & use your API spec on a testing tool like Postman
• Making authenticated requests to a strapi API
• Get data from API with postman

Sunday Prep Work

• Starting on it