Liferay Travels

Liferay Workspace with the backend for the Liferay Symposium Spain 2020 Workshop: Building a SPA to squeeze Headless APIs.

To build the front-end we will build a SPA in React following the steps in the Liferay Travels Front repository.

Purpose

Explore the existing and new features added in Liferay 7.3 in the Headless APIs focusing in:

• Extend existing APIs
• Create a custom API

Step 0: Pre-requisites

Some pre-requisites must be achieved to be able to follow the workshop

Required software:

• Java 8 or Java 11 JDK
• Git
• Blade (optional but strongly recommended)

Required knowledge:

• Experience with Java and Liferay is required.
• Knowledge of APIs (REST or GraphQL) and OpenAPI specification is recommended.

Step 1: Prepare environment

To avoid wasting time during the workshop it is strongly recommended to initialize the Liferay Workspace with one of the following commands: blade server init or gw initBundle. This commands will download the Liferay bundle, which size is about 1GB.

We will use the Liferay Portal 7.3 GA6 version. A Liferay service module is provided to be used during the workshop.