Blogs

In the first part we basically set everything up. We created a Gatsby site and a few web content articles in Liferay. In this part we will create the Gatsby source plugin for Liferay and use the headless API to pull in our articles. Upfront, a lot of the steps I outline below for creating the plugin I got from the Gatsby site. Therefore, I will leave out some explanations...

A few weeks ago, I had a need for a simple static site to host some documentation for internal customers at my work.  What I needed for the site was basically a Home page and a series of documentation pages very similar to what Liferay uses for Clay UI. I thought about using Liferay and the Knowledge Base to achieve this, but for a few reasons I did not have an existing instance...

Liferay gives us the possibility to add Oauth (OpenId connect) authentication out of the box. It’s also possible to give access to third-party applications via Oauth authentication. But what if you don’t want your user to log in to your portal with Oauth but still give them the possibility to enhance their experience by connecting your portal to some third party service authenticated...

Office 365 is becoming the attention centre of many companies those days. Integration of Office 365 in their portal become needed to add features like registering to an event in your Calendar, creating a contact directory from Azure AD or showing a message from a specific Teams. The Microsoft documentation explains well how to use the Microsoft Graph API with many technologies, but...

Recently when I was working on my custom Headless API blog series, I ran into a bit of trouble with my Service Builder-based persistence tier. My SB code was done and working, and I was adding methods to my CLI tool to test all of the Headless methods. I had the list working, I could add, update and patch Vitamins, and I just finished the delete method testing and I was on cloud...

Introduction I've recently started working on a React SPA to take advantage of the Liferay Headless APIs. I was working through all of my implementation details and was finally ready to start making API calls, but I needed to figure out how to handle authenticated requests. I reached the following point in the documentation,...

It's been about ten years now,  so if that isn't a sign of dedication to a product, then I don't know what is. Last year at DevCON in Amsterdam I shared the first part of my story, The Journey of a Liferay Developer: The Search for Answers -- how I discovered the platform, the challenges I faced learning it, and the road I walked to get to where I am today (or rather...

This post assumes that you are at least familiar with Webpack. If not, you might find this post helpful. It explains first why we stopped developing portlets and use a javascript frontend + rest services approach. It doesn’t cover the rest backend at all. Then it explains why we use Webpack as a task runner and compare it a bit to the Liferay NPM Bundler. A little and simple demo...

If you’ve spent time rummaging around Liferay’s search and indexing documentation provided here, you’ll find a lot of details about document contributors, index writers, search registrars, etc. The part that might be missing is what all of these things actually do, why they are important, and why you actually want to go down the road of supporting indexing and search for your custom...

Introduction Welcome back to my series on using Liferay's REST Builder tool to generate your own Headless APIs! In part 1 of the series, we created a new project and modules, and we started to create the OpenAPI Yaml file defining our headless services by specifying the Reusable Components section. In part 2 of the series, we completed the OpenAPI Yaml file by adding in...