APIs page

The APIs page is the landing page after a user has signed in into the management portal. The landing page is also an API catalog as all APIs created in the platform are initially listed here and can also be searched upon based on different criteria:

Management portal–APIs page

It is also from this page that a user can either create a new API by clicking on Create API or edit an existing by simply clicking on the name of a given API. This action will take the user into the API implementation page:

Management portal–API implementation page

When it comes to API life cycle management, this is one of the most (if not the most) important pages as from here it is possible to implement an API by assigning and configuring any relevant policies, deploy it, create the API documentation, manage the user grants, application registrations, and also retrieve insightful API analytics.

Note that the APIs page is overall targeted mainly at API Managers, which in API Platform is the role responsible for implementing an API. Roles and responsibilities are described in greater detail in section Roles later in the chapter.