API Platform 3 Part 1: Mythically Good RESTful APIs

Need to build an API and love the process? You've come to the right place.

Built on top of Symfony, API Platform enables you to build a rich, JSON-LD-powered, hypermedia API... pretty much instantly (we'll even teach you what those buzzwords mean). In this tutorial, we'll build a real app including:

• Setting up API Platform in a Symfony app
• Buzzwords: Swagger, OpenAPI & JSON-LD+Hydra
• "Exposing" a Class to your API via ApiResource
• Customizing operations
• All about serialization and controlling input/output fields
• IRIs & how to control them
• Related resources
• Embedded resources & Subresources
• Filters
• Pagination
• Validation
• Formats & Content-Type Negotiation
• Bonus: React Admin

• Installing API Platform
• Creating your First ApiResource
• Swagger UI: Interactive Docs
• The Powerful OpenAPI Spec
• JSON-LD: Giving Meaning to your Data
• Hydra: Describing API Classes, Operations & More
• API Debugging with the Profiler
• Operations / Endpoints
• The Serializer
• Serialization Groups: Choosing Fields
• Serialization Tricks
• Pagination & Foundry Fixtures
• Filters: Searching Results
• PropertyFilter: Sparse Fieldsets
• More Formats: HAL & CSV
• Validation
• Creating a User Entity
• User API Resource
• Relating Resources
• Relations & Iris
• Embedded Relations
• Embedded Write
• Adding Items to a Collection Property
• Creating Embedded Objects
• Removing Items from a Collection
• Filtering on Relations
• Subresources
• React Admin