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Seven reading orders through the documentation, one for each kind of application. Each lists the pages to read, in order, with the time they take.

RESTHeart Ulabase

A learning path is a reading order: the pages to read for one kind of application, from the first concept to something running in production.

The first four paths cover what RESTHeart gives an application without backend code. The last three are for extending it with plugins and for running it.

New to RESTHeart? The Introduction and the Quick Start come before any path.

Path 1: Build on MongoDB, No Backend Code

Goal: Read, write, aggregate and validate data through RESTHeart’s APIs, with rules enforced by the server.

Time: ~4 hours | Difficulty: Beginner

Step Topic

1

What is RESTHeart? (10 min)

2

Quick Start (15 min)

3

Security Fundamentals (20 min)

4

REST API Tutorial (30 min)

5

Reading Data (30 min)

6

Writing Data (30 min)

7

Aggregations (20 min)

8

Data Constraints (20 min)

9

Change Streams (15 min)

10

Permissions (30 min)

11

Configuration (20 min)

✓ You can now run a production API on MongoDB.

Next steps: Transactions, File Storage, Schema Validation

Path 2: Users, Sign-up and Teams

Goal: Give your application sign-up, login, social sign-in, password reset, teams and invitations — with the restheart-accounts plugin, not with code of yours.

Time: ~2 hours | Difficulty: Beginner

Step Topic

1

Sign-up Management Overview (10 min)

2

Tutorial: Set Up Registration (30 min)

3

User Registration and Verification (15 min)

4

Password Reset (10 min)

5

Email Templates (15 min)

6

Sign in with Google and GitHub (20 min)

7

Teams and Invitations (15 min)

8

Multi-tenancy (15 min)

9

Terms and Consents (10 min)

✓ Your users can register, sign in and work in teams.

Next steps: How clients authenticate, Sending your own email, Subscriptions with Stripe

Path 3: AI Agents and Semantic Search

Goal: Let an AI agent use your data over MCP, and search it by meaning with vector search — the restheart-ai plugin.

Time: ~2 hours | Difficulty: Intermediate

Step Topic

1

AI Features Overview (10 min)

2

The MCP Server (20 min)

3

Tutorial: Publish Your Data to an Agent (30 min)

4

Connect Claude Desktop (10 min)

5

API Keys: a Credential for an Agent (15 min)

6

Vector Search (20 min)

7

Tutorial: Semantic Search on Your Documents (30 min)

✓ An agent answers questions on your data, and your search understands meaning.

Next steps: MCP on Ulabase, API keys for agents on Ulabase, Aggregations an agent can call

Path 4: Subscriptions and Billing with Stripe

Goal: Sell plans and seats, gate features by plan, and keep subscriptions in step with Stripe — the restheart-stripe plugin.

Time: ~2 hours | Difficulty: Intermediate

Step Topic

1

Stripe Integration Overview (10 min)

2

Tutorial: Set Up Stripe (30 min)

3

Products and Prices (15 min)

4

Plans and Seats (20 min)

5

Plan Gates (15 min)

6

Subscription Lifecycle (15 min)

7

Webhooks (15 min)

8

Multi-tenancy (10 min)

✓ Your application charges, and knows who paid for what.

Next steps: Subscription Owner Provider, Teams and Invitations

Path 5: Plugin Developer

Goal: Extend RESTHeart with custom services, interceptors and providers, in Java, Kotlin, JavaScript or TypeScript.

Time: ~3 hours | Difficulty: Intermediate

Step Topic

1

What is RESTHeart? (10 min)

2

Quick Start (15 min)

3

Core Concepts (30 min)

4

Framework Overview (20 min)

5

Plugin Tutorial (45 min)

6

Developing Services (30 min)

7

Developing Interceptors (20 min)

8

Providers & Dependency Injection (15 min)

9

Deploying Plugins (20 min)

✓ You can now build and deploy custom plugins.

Next steps: JavaScript Plugins, Initializers, Sending email from a plugin

Path 6: DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer

Goal: Deploy and operate RESTHeart in production.

Time: ~2 hours | Difficulty: Intermediate

Step Topic

1

What is RESTHeart? (10 min)

2

Installation (20 min)

3

Docker Setup (20 min)

4

Configuration (30 min)

5

Security Hardening (20 min)

6

TLS Configuration (15 min)

7

Logging (10 min)

8

Monitoring (15 min)

9

Clustering & Load Balancing (20 min)

✓ You’re ready to run RESTHeart in production.

Next steps: GraalVM Native Image, Auditing, Reverse Proxy

Path 7: GraphQL Developer

Goal: Build GraphQL APIs on top of MongoDB.

Time: ~2 hours | Difficulty: Intermediate

Step Topic

1

What is RESTHeart? (10 min)

2

Quick Start (15 min)

3

GraphQL Tutorial (30 min)

4

Getting Started (20 min)

5

GraphQL Apps (20 min)

6

Schema Design (20 min)

7

Mappings (20 min)

8

Resolvers (20 min)

✓ You can now build GraphQL APIs with RESTHeart.

Next steps: Performance Optimization, Advanced Example, Best Practices

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