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API integrations and the future CMS integrations

Devs, could you clarify something about API integrations and the future CMS integrations? The impression I'm getting is:

  • API integration already works with basically any service that can receive HTTP requests.
  • CMS integration will require someoneā€”WebStudio, or community buildersā€”to actually build an integration for that service (and potentially reusable with services that have very similar API's).
Could you let me know if I have that basically correct?
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API integration already works with basically any service that can receive HTTP requests.

Correct
CMS integration will require someoneā€”WebStudio, or community buildersā€”to actually build an integration for that service (and potentially reusable with services that have very similar API's).

The answer is - it depends.

Some CMS providers make it quite easy, so all we need to do in such cases is configuring the CMS in the builder:

  • Setting the dynamic page path
  • Configuring the Resource and use the page url path/query in it
  • Setup pagination
  • Build the UI and bind the corresponding properties to the data fields
All of this is something a visual builder can do from scratch. It would make it easier to start if we have a template for a CMS that has the defaults baked in.

A great example of such CMSs is hygraph.
Great, thanks for clarifying
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