Understanding react api call api/products/count

Technical Q&A
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PREREQUISITES:

I’ve been testing the php template (with javascript react fe) https://github.com/Shopify/shopify-app-template-php

Everything is fine and I can see the app working in the dev store.

THE ISSUE:

What I can not really understand is the api call made through react AppQuery: it calls (POST) /api/products/count for getting the total product count and supposedly /api/products for creating new products.

to me it does not look neither REST nor graphql: and I do not see any custom api endpoint built inside the app.

am I missing something with AppQuery? it’s pretty new for me but I do not see how the api call is performed.

attached the code snippet from source at https://github.com/Shopify/shopify-frontend-template-react/blob/800eb8691cb9585e6f14e8fb940d87ebe0f34e9d/components/ProductsCard.jsx

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thanks

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guess this is how react calls php for handling the REST in web/vendor/shopify/shopify-api/src/Rest/Admin2025_01/Product.php

there I can see:

protected static array $PATHS = [
    ["http_method" => "get", "operation" => "count", "ids" => [], "path" => "products/count.json"],