Publish: Step-By-Step First Install

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Publish is the content management component of the DADI web services stack, a set of flexible interfaces to easily manage content stored in API. This post gives an overview of setting it up and connecting to a DADI API instance.

We should note that many of the core web services in the DADI platform can be installed very simply using the DADI CLI tool. Publish is still in a public beta phase and doesn't yet benefit from CLI's simplified install process.

Setup and build

We need to start by adding a directory for the Publish files. If you already have one, change into that directory first.

 $ mkdir ~/projects/publish-cms
 $ cd ~/projects/publish-cms

Add a package.json file to this directory, to list our dependencies. Add a new file to your directory with the following contents:

~/projects/publish-cms/package.json

 {
   "name": "publish-cms",
   "version":

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September 2019

 {
   "app": {
     "name": "My CMS",
     "publisher": "My Publishing Company"
   },
   "server": {
     "host": "0.0.0.0",
     "port": 3001,
   },
   "apis": \\\[
     {
       "name": "Test API",
       "host": "http://localhost",
       "port": 3002,
       "database": "api",
       "version": "1.0"
     }
   \\\],
   "auth": {
     "enabled": false
   }
 }

{
  "fields": {
    "title": {
      "type": "String",
      "required": true,
      "label": "Title",
      "publish": {
        "display": {
          "edit": true, // field will appear in the edit view
          "list": false // field will not appear in the index view
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Publish: Step-By-Step First Install

Setup and build

Connecting to API

Overriding Publish defaults

Extending API fields

Hiding an entire collection

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