4. The Basics

In the next chapters, you’ll learn about the basic concepts of Local Protocol that are central to your development.

By the end of these chapters, you’ll be able to:

• Expose your custom functionalities through endpoints.
• Create custom modules that define custom business logic.
• Create custom tables in the database through data models.
• Execute scripts when the Local Protocol application starts.
• Perform asynchronous actions when an event occurs.
• Run tasks at a specified time or pattern during the Local Protocol application's runtime.
• Create custom flows as a series of steps involving multiple services.
• Customize the admin dashboard to inject components on existing pages or add new pages.