Playlist · 8 videos · 52 min
Start here: what API Maker is, and how to install it
New to API Maker? Start here: what it is and how it works, the whole product in one demo, and the two ways to install it: on your computer with Launchpad, or on your own server with one command. Then your first API, called from a web or mobile app, and a tour of the admin panel.
The videos of this playlist
1:481. IntroductionWhat Is API Maker? The Backend Engine for the AI Era
Building a backend still takes months: hand-written APIs, security gaps, slow and expensive servers. API Maker connects MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle or MariaDB and gives every table about thirty secure REST APIs at once, so your team, or your AI assistant, writes only the business logic.
6:562. ArchitectureHow API Maker Works: The Life of a Request, from Your App to Your Data
How API Maker works, in six minutes: the life of one request through Caddy, the token and groups, your hooks, the API and one envelope. Then the four families of APIs, the two tokens and their gates, where your code runs in eight languages, the servers, what a save does and why everything is in git.
8:343. Full demoAPI Maker v4 Full Demo: Six Databases, One Backend, Every API
The whole of API Maker v4 in one story. Calm Home, an online shop, keeps its data in MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle and MariaDB. Watch API Maker installed in one click, connected, give every table its APIs, read across engines in one call, run custom code in eight languages, fix its own security holes, and scale to more servers.
8:574. LaunchpadRun API Maker on Your Computer with Launchpad, in One Click
API Maker Launchpad is a desktop app that runs API Maker on your computer. Pick a folder: it installs API Maker v4, its MongoDB and Redis, and your databases. One click starts everything, a watchdog stands by, and closing the app stops it all, with nothing left running.
8:065. InstallInstall API Maker v4 on Ubuntu with One Command
One command on a fresh Ubuntu server installs API Maker version four, its MongoDB and Redis, systemd to keep it running, and Caddy in front. A new server of Calm Home goes from nothing to its admin panel in under two minutes, then upgrades with the same command, keeps every version, and grows to more servers.
5:446. Quick startYour First API in 10 Minutes: The API Maker Quick Start
The API Maker quick start, in ten minutes: a new account comes with a sample shop on MongoDB. Set one connection string and a password, get a token, save a category and a product through their schema, read them back with a relation, and see a refusal with every error in one answer.
7:367. Web and mobileCall Your API Maker APIs from a Web or Mobile App: Tokens, CORS, Errors and Types
A real web shop in plain JavaScript calls API Maker from the browser: the token of the app from a public custom API (the password stays in the secret), pages of products with select, sort, limit, skip and the total, a customer who signs in for a token of their own, an expired token refreshed without the customer noticing, errors shown under their fields, allowed origins, types from the schemas, and the same calls from Swift and Kotlin.
3:598. Panel tourAPI Maker Admin Panel Tour: Find Any Page in Two Keystrokes
API Maker puts your whole backend in one admin panel. In under four minutes, learn where everything lives: the welcome dashboard, search, the menus of the top bar, the Command K palette, the user menu and the tools, light and dark themes, and the three kinds of users.