<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hey Ian!<div><br></div><div>I would suggest that you look into this two project...<div>- <a href="https://parse.com/">https://parse.com/</a></div><div>- <a href="http://helios.io/">http://helios.io/</a></div><div><br></div><div>- Oto</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 10, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Ian Kynnersley <<a href="mailto:iankynnersley@gmail.com">iankynnersley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>For an upcoming project, I will be creating an API to power some mobile apps. The API will be largely read-only in JSON and will need to provide an admin interface for non-technical users to manage the data that drives it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>By default, I would probably knock up something bespoke with Rails and RailsAdmin. Or maybe a Sinatra equivalent. However, there would be definite benefits on this project to building it on an established CMS platform rather than completely hand-coded. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Has anyone got any experience of using an existing CMS to create an API like this without a "public" web interface.</div><div><br></div><div>Is there anything specific I need to consider when using existing CMS tools or is it as simple as finding one that allows API-suitable authentication (i.e. not forms-based) and then creating JSON templates rather than HTML ones?</div>
<div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your help!</div><div><br></div><div>Ian</div><div><br></div>-- <br>
<br>Ian Kynnersley<br><a href="http://iankynnersley.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://iankynnersley.co.uk</a> | +44 (0) 7973 420 829 | <a href="http://twitter.com/kpopper" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/kpopper</a>
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