Introduction to API Platform

• APIs reminders: REST, HATEOAS, hypermedia, GraphQL
• APIs at the heart of the Web today
• JavaScript and Progressive Web Apps
• API Platform, Symfony and React
• Immediate benefits

• Setting up your development environment with Docker

Creating an API resource

• Represent a resource with its PHP class
• HATEOAS / Linked Data
• JSON-LD + Hydra
• JSON:API
• Schema.org
• GraphQL

Integration with Doctrine

• Create your first entity
• Expose data thanks to metadata
• Dynamic admin generation

Configure operations

• Default operations
• Configuration inheritance
• Read-only operations
• Change an URL
• Configure multiple resources

Handle serialization

• Serialization with Symfony
• Nested resources
• Sparse fieldsets

Validate data

• Assertions
• Automatic assertions

Filter data

• With Doctrine
• ApiFilter attribute
• With a service
• SearchFilter
• Change the default order
• Multiple order
• OrderFilter
• PropertyFilter

Paginate data

• Default JSON-LD pagination
• Configure the pagination

Handle users

• Memory User Provider
• LexikJWTAuthenticationBundle
• SwaggerUI

Secure data

• Secure a resource
• Secure an operation
• Secure a property

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

• Principles
• NelmioCorsBundle

Internal behavior and events

• Metadata: ApiResource and Operations
• Request workflow
• API Platform events
• Listen to an event

Extend API Platform

• Custom State Provider / Processor
• Extend Metadata

Transform data

• Add custom data
• Use DTOs

Customize OpenAPI documentation

Customize Hydra documentation

Upload images

• Base64 and VichUploaderBundle
• Upload a file

Store data in cache

• HTTP Cache

Test API

• Behat
• PHPUnit

Go further

• Subresources
• Mercure
• Messenger
• DTO and Messenger

The promise

• JS stack
• Other skeletons
• Kubernetes
• Caddy