Configure a developer portal
Create a developer portal to serve as the central information hub for your developers. A developer portal exposes a company's APIs to external users so that they can retrieve information about the APIs, view their schemas, and learn how to access and interact with these APIs.
A developer portal consists of two components:
- Developer portal backend: The portal server that you deploy exposes an API that you can use to access and work with a developer portal resource.
- Developer portal frontend: The frontend is a user-facing application that renders the information about the APIs that the portal server exposes in a developer portal. This way, your users can interact with a graphical user interface to view APIs and create API keys.
Learn more about how to set up a developer portal for your users.
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Decide on your portal configuration: Decide on the portal configuration before creating a developer portal for your users.
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Create and expose the portal: Create a developer portal and set up a listener on your gateway to expose the developer portal to your users.
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Secure the portal: Learn how you can secure access to the developer portal and the private APIs that it serves by setting up external authentication and user authorization.
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Interact with the developer portal: Explore how your end users can use the developer portal to discover, access, and use your API products.