Advantage Drupal with your Apigee Developer Portal

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Apigee Developer Portal is built on top of Drupal CMS . In this article let’s see what are all the advantages you get out of the box with Apigee Dev Portal.

Go to Market Quickly :

  • Apigee Developer Portal helps you to quickly launch your Developer Partner Program for your APIs and integrates with Apigee API Platform seamlessly.
  • Add more features quickly using Drupal out of the box 30,000 modules. Yes, You heard it right 30,000 modules which will give lot of features out of the box. For Example, You would like to integrate Google Analytics in to your developer portal, module is readily available for you.
  • APIs (Drupal Hooks) exposed on top of Apigee Developer Portal integration with Apigee API platform helps you to customise On Boarding workflows for your organisation with minimal code.

Apigee Developer Portal is a CMS Itself :

  • Quickly add different content types and content using power of Drupal.
  • Drupal helps you easily maintain your content and allows you publish, un publish content, maintain revisions out of the box.
  • Flexible permissions system, User Roles help you define access restrictions as you need.
  • Create custom dashboards as you need for managing content, users using Drupal Views module.

Power of Community :

  • 38,000+ developers powers Drupal software and constantly adds more features as well as patches to fix issues if any.
  • Frequent security releases by the community.
  • Ohhh how can we forget it’s an open source software.
  • Drupal APIs help you quickly add customisations using custom modules.
  • Drupal has it’s own Stack Over flow site for Q & A. It’s called Drupal Stack Exchange.

What else ?

  • Multilingual support offered by Drupal helps you quickly launch Apigee Developer portal in any language.
  • Customisations can be done quickly in no time using power of Drupal APIs.
  • Apigee Developer portal theme is built on top of Drupal Bootstrap theme which supports mobile compatibility.

It’s not just Apigee Customers Developer portals are powered by Drupal platform, Twitter Developer Portal, eBay Developer Portal, and many other developer portals are built using Drupal software.

If you are Apigee customer and have developer portal then you got power of Drupal :slight_smile:

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@Anil Sagar Are there any best practices, collection of plugins which apply to work with Developer Portal Management, etc which you can share as well? Is there a way to host and publish content in markdown or asciidoctor format to DevPortal?

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@Vineet Bhatia , Any drupal module of 7.x version works with Apigee Developer Portal. Yes, You can publish content in markdown and asciidoctor formats using drupal contributed modules.

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@Anil Sagar Do you know if there is a node.js version of the Apigee Developer Portal? Even an unsupported, community version would be interesting.

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Dear @santanu4g ,

Yes we built a Node.js Apigee Developer Portal called Apigee Dlite. It does basic things and works as expected. Currently it is private repo and has plans to open source it.

We are interested to hear from you why are you looking for Node.Js version of Apigee Developer Portal ?

Cheers,

Anil Sagar

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You can play with it here.. https://apigee-dlite.herokuapp.com/ Please feel free to provide your feedback :slight_smile: