API Platform 2 Part 1: Serious RESTful APIs

API Platform is crushing the scene these days. And it's easy to see why! Built on top of Symfony, API Platform enables you to build a rich, JSON-LD-powered, hypermedia API... pretty much instantly! In this tutorial, we'll build a real app and leverage these tools:

• Setting up API Platform in a Symfony app
• Swagger, OpenAPI & JSON-LD+Hydra: what they are and why they're awesome
• Creating ApiResources
• Customizing the operations
• IRIs & how to control them
• Resource relations
• Embedded resources & Subresources
• Filters
• Pagination
• Validation
• The serializer & controlling input/output fields

• API Platform Installation!
• Our First ApiResource
• Swagger: Instant, Interactive API Docs
• OpenAPI Specification
• JSON-LD: Context for your Data
• Hydra: Describing API Classes, Operations & More
• API Debugging with the Profiler
• Operations
• The Serializer
• Serialization Groups
• @SerializedName & Constructor Args
• Filtering & Searching
• PropertyFilter: Sparse Fieldsets
• Pagination
• More Formats: HAL & CSV
• Validation
• Creating the User Entity
• User API Resource
• Relating Resources
• Relations and IRIs
• Embedded Relation
• Embedded Write
• Adding Items to a Collection Property
• Creating Embedded Objects
• Removing Items from a Collection
• Filtering on Relations
• Subresources