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Firstly, I want to thank the Bravo team directly before I ask my question. What an awesome team you guys have and I only get to benefit more as you all grow so very appreciated!
I just have a few "quality of life" questions I'd would love answers for.
- What is the relationship of the user.id variable I find in Bravo between your database (for reference the app I am working on currently authenticate via OAuth)
- APIs vs Webhooks? What is the main difference? Any examples or use cases? (please explain like I'm five 🙂 )
- I keep getting lost in the weeds of Biding data from user profile information and other databases I have made. From my point of view, I believe the app I'm working on is fairly simple binding structure but I seem to be missing some key API binding knowledge. Is there a place specifically I can reference via documentation that goes over a comprehensive?
Again, I appreciate the community provided and I look forward to what can come from this!
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- Every time you add new data to your Airtable, just add the user.id in the POST request too. Your Airtable could look something like this: https://airtable.com/shrtlMdLsVj4Ya2k0
There is a video of mine coming out tomorrow that will shed some light on the topic. Make sure you are subscribed to the Bravo Studio YT channel ;) - APIs and webhooks can't be compared, they are completely different things. AN API is more like a huge construct with different subtopics. Best you just read a professional definition or here is a video about APIs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIG0\_EmvkqE
A webhook can be called like a request URL. So imagine opening a website in your browser (e.g. google.com). The server then notices "Oh hey, Ozy just called me, what should I do now?" This event then triggers some sort of function on the server. For example, in this video I use a webhook to do some additional logic in Integromat before calling the Airtable API: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQZuoTcQ-5M
I hope this is not too simplified so it is wrong but you should get an idea. - I would recommend to watch some of our "building full apps" videos to get a grasp of how it works. Here is a video I made about documentation for once you want to dig deeper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt6NB9h2JIg
You are a rockstar! Thank you for the resources and advice. Can’t wait till this app is done and kicking butt! Much Appreciate I’ll check those out now. And yes I was already subscribed 😄.
Here is the video that should help you understand the concept of the user.id (the video uses device.id but they are interchangable in this case): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o5qHrX-kKU
It was great! Watched a soon as it dropped. I am actually having to pivot a bit on my projects backend to Xano. So have to learn another authentication system I wonder how this will differ with auth tokens.
The good thing is: It won't. You can still set up the DB exactly as explained in the video
That is very pleasing to hear. I am almost done with my MVP and features list. This thread was much help!
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