# Creating Asset Types

Not everyone needs Event Types and Events.

You could go straight to creating Assets and managing these as first class entities in Sky Ledge. Sky Ledge offers an out of the box Asset Management solution that’s fully API driven.

Asset Management is easy to understand, there are two concepts:

1. Asset Types (Classes of Asset, e.g. Cars, Phones) 
2. Assets (Specific Assets, e.g. Ferrari Spider or iPhone X)

### Creating an Asset Type

Creating Asset Types is easy:

#### **Creating Asset Type - Hero**

```
POST api.skyledge.com/asset-types

{  
   "identifier":"hero",
   "name":"Hero",
   "description":"A HP Inc consumer"
}

```

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="cURL" %}

```
curl --location --request POST 'https://api.skyledge.com/asset-types' \
--header 'X-Authorization: API_KEY' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{  
   "identifier":"hero",
   "name":"Hero",
   "description":"A HP Inc consumer"
}'
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="NodeJs" %}

```
import { Configuration, AssetTypeRequest, AssetTypesApi } from '@skyledge/sdk';

const configuration = new Configuration({
  apiKey: 'XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXX',
  basePath: 'https://api.skyledge.com',
});

const data: Partial<AssetTypeRequest> = {  
   "identifier":"hero",
   "name":"Hero",
   "description":"A HP Inc consumer"
};

const assetTypeApi = new AssetTypesApi(configuration);

const newAssetType = await assetTypeApi.createAssetType(data);

console.log(newAssetType.status);

```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Python" %}

```
import requests
import json

url = "https://api.skyledge.com/asset-types"

payload = json.dumps({
  "identifier": "hero",
  "name": "Hero",
  "description": "A HP Inc consumer"
})
headers = {
  'X-Authorization': 'API_KEY',
  'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

print(response.text)

```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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