Why developers like Strapi

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 52.1K GitHub stars and 6.3K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Strapi 's open source repository on GitHub

Companies

78 companies reportedly use Strapi in their tech stacks, including Trade Republic , Labs , and Mind Gym .

Trade Republic

Labs

Mind Gym

Angry Ventures

Cozero

Forum.eu

Tutor Platform

kickstartDS

Development

Developers

519 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Strapi .

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Strapi Integrations

Python , Node.js , React , Java , and PHP are some of the popular tools that integrate with Strapi . Here's a list of all 39 tools that integrate with Strapi .

Python

Node.js

React

Java

PHP

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Django

Ruby

Pros of Strapi

58

Free

39

Open source

28

Self-hostable

27

Rapid development

25

API-based cms

20

Headless

18

Real-time

16

Easy setup

13

Large community

12

JSON

6

GraphQL

4

Social Auth

4

Internationalization

2

Media Library

1

Components

Decisions about Strapi

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Strapi in their tech stack.

Krish V

Nov 19, 2021 | 6 upvotes · 73.6K views

Needs advice

on

Strapi

and

WordPress

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.

Yuzhang Huang

Aug 11, 2021 | 7 upvotes · 22.1K views

Needs advice

on

Gatsby

Next.js

and

Nuxt.js

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?

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Strapi 's Features

Files structure
Controllers
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Models
Attributes
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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

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