Solidus: Solidus REST API Headless

[CharlyJazz]

Is it possible to use Solidus REST API to create SPA, PWA, or simply consult an endpoint to filter products?

I refer to the Front End as such, not using the API to create an Admin panel

[CharlyJazz]

I can not find a way to filter a product asynchronously using XMLHTTPREQUEST.

[kennyadsl]

@CharlyJazz yes, you can include only engine that you need. Instead of:

gem 'solidus'

You could do:

gem 'solidus_core'
gem 'solidus_api'
gem 'solidus_backend'
gem 'solidus_sample'

and implement your own frontend.

I can not find a way to filter a product asynchronously using XMLHTTPREQUEST.

Not sure to get what you mean. Can you please explain better?

[CharlyJazz]

I'm trying to filter, or do anything like

Obtain products or taxonomies using the REST API ... etc.

But I can only use the REST API if I have a token from a user Admin and that does not make sense for the Front End. I need to do AJAX because I want to make a modern web with React (Single Page App).

Example: If i can try make a ajax using the endpoint: https://ecommerce.herokuapp.com/api/products/1 i get:

{"error":"You must specify an API key."}

[kennyadsl]

Yes you are right, there's no built in way to use the API without an API key. This can be solved in several ways, see. #2808 and the resulting extension https://github.com/skukx/solidus_jwt for an example of implementaion using JWT.

[ericsaupe]

@CharlyJazz pretty sure by default all API calls require authentication. You can remove this overarching requirement by changing the API config.

Spree::Api::Config.configure do |config|
  config.requires_authentication = false
end

This will disable authentication for public calls but still maintain normal permission checks on things like orders and users.

[CharlyJazz]

@ericsaupe Thats gold. We need that in the documentation. The people want create PWA, and modern front end architectures.

[ericsaupe]

Definitely something that can be better documented. I'll see if I can get a PR open with some better documentation for this gotcha. We did a single page checkout using the solidus_api and ran into this.

Thanks for the question!

[CharlyJazz]

Thank for u support bro! @ericsaupe :tada: :tada:

[kennyadsl]

We recently merged #3133 and I think we can close this one since our API is fully documented. Thanks for your question @CharlyJazz!