Haneefa: Headless CMS, 3 weeks

[Haneefa-Shaik]

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

[Haneefa-Shaik]

Week 1

I Need Help With:

• I understand that headless CMSs work well with APIs and websites. While going through some random videos, I found the subtopic called Use cases for Headless CMS. Is it like advantages or like real-time use? And one more thing I wanted to know is Is there any alternative to headless?

What went well?

• Understanding the content management system
• Performing HTTP calls via the postman.
• I almost finished exercises in complex queries.

What went less well?

• Due to my son's leg injury, I had very little bit of time to study this week. Thanks to maria who helped me in clearing my confusion in one of the exercises. I will try to complete the remaining exercises before the next class.

Sunday Prep Work

• I will keep doing the exercises and read more.

[danielhalasz]

• I found the subtopic called Use cases for Headless CMS. Is it like advantages or like real-time use?

can you please rephrase the question? not sure I understand the question. Are you asking what the phrase use case means? It means situations/scenarios where using it could be a good idea.

• And one more thing I wanted to know is Is there any alternative to headless?

yes, regular CMSs (how Wordpress is usually used) and custom backend systems, depending on the goals of the project

[danielhalasz]

• Due to my son's leg injury, I had very little bit of time to study this week.

hope he gets well soon!!

[Haneefa-Shaik]

Week 2

I Need Help With:

What went well?

• This week's work went well. Created chat application in Strapi and tried API calls via the postman.
• Fetching data using filters, sort, and populate.
• Continuing exercises from the last week.

What went less well?

• I just started to display the collections from strapi to my HTML page.

Sunday Prep Work

Continuing the project and keep on studying the topics.

[Haneefa-Shaik]

Week 3

I Need Help With:

Initially, I was not able to retrieve an image. After googling, I understood that, all I had to do was to make the get request populate so that I could get access to the image.

What went well?

• I have retrieved data from strapi to my HTML page for the chat application. Now authentication is pending.
• The examples and the sources provided were really helpful.
• I clearly understood how to manage and write content, and then access it to your HTML page using an API.

What went less well?

• It was a slow week for me. But mostly tried to complete the work.

Sunday Prep Work

Going to start reading about react as suggested by Kevin.

[Haneefa-Shaik]

RETROSPECTIVE

Me

What was not clear, where did you get stuck?

I really felt awesome and enjoyed this module. Now I can happily say that I can use the postman tool and can run API in postman. As of now, everything is clear and good.

What was clear, what did you master?

• creating collections in strapi
• Fetching data from strapi

Where can you still use some help?

Where can you help others moving forwards?

In this module, I was asking for help from others in some of the situations. Everything is fine and good now.

The Course

What can there be more of?

Nothing, as usual its well and good

What can there be less of?

What material were most helpful (from HYF or elsewhere)?

As usual HYF material is fine and enough

What HYF material was least helpful?

Any suggestions for future classes?