The Complete Strapi™ Course with Plugins and Deployment - Controllers: Replacing Core Controllers

The video tutorial explains how to replace a core action by creating a new functionality without leveraging existing methods. It covers the syntax for route paths and parameters, and how to extract them from requests. The tutorial also discusses using services to fetch data, the importance of sanitizing outputs, and transforming responses. Testing and logging of requests and responses are demonstrated, and the lesson concludes with a preview of upcoming topics on services.

Describe the role of the 'transform response' function in shaping the output of the API.

What are the consequences of not including the 'transform response' function in the output?

How does the controller code maintain simplicity while delegating low-level operations?