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Arrays

Learn JavaScript arrays -- creating, accessing, mutating, iterating with map/filter/reduce, destructuring, and the spread operator.

Authentication & Permissions

The Users & Permissions plugin, JWT authentication, user registration, roles, API tokens, and controlling access to your Strapi API.

Building a REST API

Build a REST API with Java's built-in HttpServer -- HTTP basics, request handling, JSON serialization, routing, and exposing the task manager over HTTP.

Building Pages

Using Core Components, the responsive grid, navigation, header and footer, building a homepage and article page, and page properties.

Classes & Objects

Learn Java OOP basics -- classes, objects, constructors, access modifiers, encapsulation, toString, equals/hashCode, static members, and records.

Client Libraries

CSS and JS management in AEM -- clientlib structure, categories, dependencies, embedding, proxy serving, and the ui.frontend module.

Collections

Learn Java collections -- ArrayList, HashMap, HashSet, iterating, generics, immutable collections, and choosing the right collection.

Component Dialogs

Touch UI dialogs with Granite/Coral -- field types, tabs, multifields, image upload, validation, and conditional visibility.

Configuration & Deployment

Environment-based configuration, PostgreSQL setup, deploying Strapi to a VPS with PM2, nginx reverse proxy, HTTPS, and security hardening.

Content Fragments & GraphQL

Content Fragment Models, creating and managing fragments, the AEM GraphQL API, persisted queries, and headless content delivery.

Content Modeling

Defining collection types, single types, field types, components, and dynamic zones in Strapi 5.

Control Flow

Learn Java control flow -- if/else, switch expressions, for/while/do-while loops, enhanced for-each, break, continue, and common patterns.

Control Flow

Learn how to make decisions and repeat actions in JavaScript with if/else, switch, ternary operators, and loops.

Custom Controllers & Services

Extending Strapi's default CRUD controllers, creating custom actions, delegating business logic to services, and sanitizing output.

Deploying to a VPS with Nginx

Deploy your Java REST API to a VPS -- installing the JDK, running as a systemd service, configuring nginx as a reverse proxy, and HTTPS with Let's Encrypt.

Deploying to a VPS with Nginx

Deploy your website to a Virtual Private Server -- server setup, SSH, nginx configuration, HTTPS with Let's Encrypt, and basic security hardening.

Deployment & Cloud Manager

Git repo structure, Cloud Manager pipelines, environments, Rapid Development Environments, content transfer, and going to production.

Dispatcher & Caching

Dispatcher architecture, cache rules, filters, rewrites, vanity URLs, cache invalidation, and local Dispatcher SDK testing.

Error Handling

Learn Java error handling -- try/catch/finally, checked vs unchecked exceptions, custom exceptions, try-with-resources, and best practices.

Error Handling

Handle errors gracefully in JavaScript -- try/catch/finally, error types, custom errors, async error handling, and common patterns.

Events & Interactivity

Learn how to handle user interactions in JavaScript -- event listeners, the event object, bubbling, delegation, forms, and keyboard/mouse events.

File I/O

Learn Java file I/O -- Path, Files, reading and writing text files, directories, BufferedReader/Writer, and simple CSV parsing.

Functions

Learn JavaScript functions -- declarations, expressions, arrow functions, parameters, scope, closures, and callbacks.

Gradle

Learn Gradle with Kotlin DSL -- project structure, dependency management, building fat JARs, and improving the REST API project with Jackson for JSON handling.

HTL Templates

The HTML Template Language in depth -- expressions, block statements, global objects, the Use API, and best practices.

HTML & CSS Essentials

Learn enough HTML and CSS to build web pages -- document structure, semantic elements, forms, CSS selectors, the box model, flexbox, and responsive design.

Inheritance & Interfaces

Learn Java inheritance, method overriding, abstract classes, interfaces, polymorphism, sealed classes, and composition vs inheritance.

Introduction & Setup

What AEM is, the technology stack (Sling, JCR, OSGi), AEMaaCS vs on-premise, installing the SDK, generating a project with the Maven archetype, and a project structure walkthrough.

Introduction & Setup

What a headless CMS is, why Strapi, installing Strapi 5, understanding the project structure, and your first look at the admin panel.

Lifecycle Hooks & Webhooks

Reacting to content events with Document Service middleware, configuring webhooks, and integrating with external services.

Managing Content

Using the admin panel to create, edit, and publish content -- drafts, publishing workflow, media library, and bulk operations.

Maven

Learn Apache Maven -- project structure, dependency management, building fat JARs, and improving the REST API project with Gson for JSON handling.

Media & File Uploads

Upload providers, S3 and Cloudinary integration, image optimization, responsive formats, upload validation, and media management.

Methods

Learn Java methods -- defining and calling static methods, parameters, return types, overloading, varargs, scope, and recursion.

Multi-Site Manager & i18n

Blueprints, Live Copies, rollout configurations, language copies, the translation framework, and i18n dictionaries.

Objects

Learn JavaScript objects -- literals, properties, methods, this, destructuring, spread, Object methods, and JSON.

Optionals

Avoid NullPointerException with Java's Optional -- creation, unwrapping, chaining, and best practices for handling missing values.

OSGi Fundamentals

OSGi bundles, services, the component lifecycle, the Web Console, and configuration management in AEM.

Project: Build a Complete Website

Build a multi-page vanilla JavaScript website from scratch -- navigation, theme toggle, form validation, dynamic content, and local storage.

Project: CLI Task Manager

Build a complete command-line task manager in Java -- CRUD operations, file-based persistence, input validation, and packaging as a runnable JAR.

Regular Expressions

Master JavaScript regular expressions -- patterns, character classes, quantifiers, groups, lookaheads, and practical validation examples.

Relations

Defining one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many relations between content types to build a blog data model.

REST API

Strapi's auto-generated REST API -- endpoints, filtering, sorting, pagination, field selection, population, and testing with curl.

Routes, Policies & Middleware

Custom routes for new endpoints, access control policies, request/response middleware, and the Strapi request lifecycle.

Sling Models

Injecting JCR content into Java models -- annotations, adaptables, child resources, OSGi services, exporters, and best practices.

Streams & Lambdas

Functional Java -- lambda expressions, method references, the Stream API, and practical data processing pipelines.

Templates & Policies

Editable templates, template types, structure vs initial content, component policies, allowed components, and page structure.

Testing

Write your first Java tests -- JUnit 5 setup, assertions, test structure, parameterized tests, and testing the Task Manager and REST API.

The DOM

Learn how JavaScript interacts with web pages through the DOM -- selecting elements, modifying content, creating and removing elements, and traversing the tree.

The JCR & Sling

The Java Content Repository, node types and properties, resource resolution, CRXDE Lite, and how Apache Sling maps URLs to content.

TypeScript

TypeScript adds static types to JavaScript -- learn type annotations, interfaces, generics, union types, and how to set up a TypeScript project.

TypeScript Integration

Setting up TypeScript in Strapi 5, generating types from content schemas, typing controllers, services, and Document Service queries.

Variables, Types & Operators

Learn Java's primitive types, String basics, type casting, var, final, arithmetic, comparison, and logical operators.

Variables, Types & Operators

Learn about JavaScript variables (let, const, var), primitive data types, type coercion, operators, and template literals.

Working with Data

Learn how to fetch data from APIs, handle JSON responses, use async/await, and store data with localStorage and sessionStorage.

Your First Component

Component anatomy in AEM -- the cq:Component node, HTL template, dialog, and Sling Model. Creating, deploying, and using a simple component.