The approach we have adopted with this book is worth explaining. If you read the section on the target audience, you'll note we're not aiming only at the developer community but at a wider potential user audience of API Platform Cloud Service. To help us do this, we have set ourselves some parameters that will help you understand why things have been done a particular way.
- Use tools that the entire target audience can use and understand. So nice integrated developer tools are not used for most of the book. There are a couple of areas where they are relevant, though.
- Do not force the reader to buy lots of extra products to allow the majority of the examples to be exercised. This does mean that rather than ...
