Understanding the difference between admin users and API users

There are two types of users in Strapi: administrator panel users and API users. Mostly, we will be working with API users, but still, it is a good idea to know the difference between them.

Admin users are those who can log in to the Strapi admin panel. When we set up and installed Strapi in Chapter 1, An Introduction to Strapi, we created our first admin user, and we have been using that user ever since to interact and work with the admin panel. Additional admin users can be added from the Settings panel.

Figure 7.1: Admin user settings locations

The first admin users we create will have the role of Super Admin; they have access to manage all features and settings in the Strapi admin panel, but you cannot use them to interact with the API contents via the API endpoints.

API users, on the other hand, are considered another content-type in the API. Unlike the classroom and tutorial content...