Backend routes in the Editor Starter

Some Editor Starter features require backend endpoints. The default implementation uses the React Router 7 framework.

POST /api/captions

Used to generate captions for a video based on an audio file.

• Reference implementation using React Router 7
• Implementation using Next.js
• See usages

GET /api/fonts/:name

Returns the metadata for a specific font, such as available weights and styles and their corresponding Google Fonts URLs.
This information is provided by the backend because the metadata of all default fonts would be more than 10MB.

• Reference implementation using React Router 7
• Implementation using Next.js
• See usages

POST /api/upload

Needed to create a presigned URL for uploading a file to S3.

• Reference implementation using React Router 7
• Implementation using Next.js
• See usages

POST /api/render

Triggers a render on Remotion Lambda. This route is only used when rendering with Remotion Lambda.

• Reference implementation using React Router 7
• Implementation using Next.js
• See usages

POST /api/progress

Gets the current progress of a render on Remotion Lambda. This route is only used when rendering with Remotion Lambda.

• Reference implementation using React Router 7
• Implementation using Next.js
• See usages