3. The Basics

In the next chapters, you’ll learn about the basic concepts of Medusa 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 Medusa application starts.
• Perform asynchronous actions when an event occurs.
• Run tasks at a specified time or pattern during the Medusa 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.