This plugin exposes a write enabled API interface for NodeBB. It is useful if you would like to supplment the built-in read-only API, in order to push items/actions/events to NodeBB.
For example, without this plugin, one can easily retrieve the contents of a post by prefixing api/ to the corresponding route. (e.g. https://community.nodebb.org/api/topic/687/help-translate-nodebb/2).
With this plugin, however, you can create content on NodeBB externally (new topics, new posts, etc), which comes in handy when third-party applications want deeper integration with NodeBB.
Install this plugin via the plugins page in the ACP.
Alternatively:
$ cd /path/to/nodebb/node_modules
$ git clone [email protected]:julianlam/nodebb-plugin-write-api.git
$ cd nodebb-plugin-write-api
$ npm i
# Then start NodeBB and activate the plugin