Liefer

A plugin for Craft CMS 3 that consumes Element API JSON and makes it available in your Twig templates.

Requirements

This plugin requires Craft CMS 3.0.0-RC1 or later and a valid JSON file generated by Craft's Element API.

Installation

To install the plugin, follow these instructions.

1. Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

    cd /path/to/project
   

2. Then tell Composer to load the plugin:

    composer require mijingo/liefer
   

3. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for Liefer.

Liefer Overview

Pass in a JSON URL or location (best is one generated by the Element API) and then output the data to your Twig template.

Using Liefer

{% set quotes = craft.liefer.get({url: 'https://something.com/quotes.json')} %}

{% for quote in quotes %}
  {{ quote.body }}
{% endfor %}

Enable caching on the Element API source.

Liefer Roadmap

Some things to do, and ideas for potential features:

• Add caching support

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