What is Strapi?
Strapi is100% JavaScript, extensible, and fully customizable.
It enables developers to build projects faster by providing a customizable API out of the box and giving them the freedom to use the their favorite tools.
Strapi is a tool in the Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS category of a tech stack.
Strapi is an open source tool with 45K GitHub stars and 5.5K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Strapi's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Strapi?
Companies
62 companies reportedly use Strapi in their tech stacks, including Trade Republic, Mind Gym, and Angry Ventures.
Developers
442 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Strapi.
Strapi Integrations
Python, Node.js, React, PHP, and Java are some of the popular tools that integrate with Strapi. Here's a list of all 39 tools that integrate with Strapi.
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Decisions about Strapi
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Strapi in their tech stack.
Yuzhang Huang
I am trying to build a specific field web community (mainly for hobbyists) that is somehow required:
- content posting
- user commenting
- topic & user following/liking/disliking
- event posting (users can participate)
- etc
I am considering using Strapi as the CMS backend. What would be the best practice for the front-end?
Krish V
Hi Stackers, We are planning to build a product information portal that also provides useful articles and blogs. Application Frontend is going to be built on Next.js with Authentication and Product Database helped by Firebase. But for the Blog / Article we are debating between WordPress/GraphQL plug-in or Strapi.
Please share your thoughts.
Strapi's Features
- Files structure
- Controllers
- Filters
- Models
- Attributes
- Relations
- Many-to-many
- One-to-many
- One-to-one
- One-way
- Lifecycle callbacks
- Internationalization
- Plugin
- Plugin styles
- Policies
- Global policies
- Scoped policies
- Plugin policies
- Public assets
- Requests
- Responses
- Routing
- Role-based access control
- Services
Strapi Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Strapi?
Contentful
With Contentful, you can bring your content anywhere using our APIs, completely customize your content structure all while using your preferred programming languages and frameworks.
Netlify CMS
It is built as a single-page React app. You can create custom-styled previews, UI widgets, and editor plugins or add backends to support different Git platform APIs.
Firebase
Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
Directus
Let's say you're planning on managing content for a website, native app, and widget. Instead of using a CMS that's baked into the website client, it makes more sense to decouple your content entirely and access it through an API or SDK. That's a headless CMS. That's Directus.
Parse-Server
A Parse.com API compatible router package for Express. Read the announcement blog post here: http://blog.parse.com/announcements/introducing-parse-server-and-the-database-migration-tool/. Read the migration guide here: https://parse.com/docs/server/guide#migrating
