Foundations of Liferay Headless API

Modern businesses rely on robust solutions to integrate diverse technologies. Headless architectures address these challenges while providing flexibility to adapt to future changes. Liferay DXP offers powerful headless APIs for creating unified applications with seamless connectivity and data exchange between systems.

Liferay's comprehensive headless APIs provide access to the same actions available in the web interface without requiring direct UI interaction. Leveraging Liferay’s APIs, you can directly connect with any REST or GraphQL-compatible technology, significantly expanding integration possibilities. Supporting standards like OpenAPI, these versioned APIs provide crucial stability for creating robust integrations that adapt to future systems and connections. Adopting this approach ensures Liferay DXP solutions are future-proof and provide the business agility needed for success.

This course introduces developers and architects to Liferay’s headless APIs. Basic understanding of general programming and deployment concepts is assumed, though knowledge of specific programming languages is not required. Additionally, this course assumes general familiarity with Liferay workspaces, developer tooling, and objects. If these concepts are new to you, consider taking the Mastering Liferay Workspaces and Tooling and Mastering Data Modeling with Liferay Objects courses first.

By the end of this course, you will have the knowledge and skills to

• Understand Liferay’s headless framework and its place in Liferay development.
• Explore Liferay’s REST and GraphQL headless APIs with various tools.
• Assign remote access through granular service access policies.
• Enforce secure API access for all headless transactions.
• Differentiate between authorization flows.
• Comprehend the fundamentals of consuming and producing Liferay’s headless APIs.

In this course, you’ll learn about Liferay’s headless APIs through the lens of a fictional company, Clarity Vision Solutions. Before diving into the technical aspects of Liferay’s headless APIs, you’ll learn about Clarity and their critical success factors.