John Olutubo: Headless-CMS, 3 weeks

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[my fork of module repository]()

Learning Objectives

headless cms

Getting Started

How to study the code in this repo

Installing node

You will need [NPM](https://docs.npmjs.com/downloading-and-installing-node-js-and-npm) and [nvm](https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#installing-and-updating) on your computer to study this material
You will also need [Postman](https://www.postman.com), please install it on your local machine.
All strapi installations will use testuser@localhost.com as username and Testuser1 as password

Learning goals

• [x] - 🥚 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

[JohnOlutubo]

Week 1

• [ ] I have pushed my progress to my fork of exercises repo

I Need Help With:

Running strapi on the forked repo with my VScode

What went well?

Understanding CMS and the use of strappi

What went less well?

same as mentioned in what I need help with

Lessons Learned:

Designing data models

Sunday Prep Work

...ongoing

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Week 2

I Need Help With:

• Not yet

What went well?

• Using postman

What went less well?

• Nothing for now

Lessons Learned

• request methods

Sunday Prep Work

• ongoing

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Week 3

I Need Help With:

• No needed help observed so far

What went well?

• Using postman

What went less well?

• Nothing for now

Lessons Learned

• Authentication, posting, deleting, adding content through APIs.

Sunday Prep Work

• ongoing