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How to perform certain action when a post is created in Strapi CMS?

I am using Strapi CMS for my data handling with a NoSQL database. So, what I am trying to do is to publish the blog on Medium also when I publish it on Strapi CMS.

I have all the credentials for publishing it on medium using API.

So, the question is how to achieve this, how to perform a certain action in Strapi CMS when a post is created or updated, so that I can get the data and send to Medium via POST request.

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Answer

So after some research and instruction by Ghosh I came to know about the webhooks provided by Strapi by default.

These hooks are somewhat same as React Lifecycle Hooks

More about hooks: Here

So for my case I have to add a hook which trigger some action after blog post is created. So, in api/blog/models/{blog}.js, I added this code

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