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Strapi

Score8 out of 10

6 Reviews and Ratings

What is Strapi?

Strapi is an open-source software platform that helps developers to easily build, deploy, and manage APIs.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

Content Type Builder
Content Manager edit layout
Content Type builder contents with groups
Content Manager Layout View
Content Manager List view

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Top Performing Features

  • Role-based user permissions

    Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.

    Category average: 8.3

  • API

    An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.

    Category average: 8

  • Admin section

    The admin page is easy to navigate and use.

    Category average: 8.1

Areas for Improvement

  • Community / comment management

    Users can put post/page comments through an approval process, auto-approve commenters based on their email addresses, block commenters by IP address, delete comments, etc.

    Category average: 7.5

  • WYSIWYG editor

    What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editing tool allows users to build pages without writing code.

    Category average: 8.1

  • SEO support

    The CMS helps users create the right website infrastructure (pagination, page headers, titles, meta tags, url structure, etc.) to increase the site’s visibility in search engine results.

    Category average: 7.6

Strapi : A CMS worth the try.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

1. We have used Strapi to create our headless CMS.

2. Used Strapi node js project as backend.

3. The backend is fully customizable and easy to add functionality.

4. Its plugin is easy to use and add like graphql, storage, auth, etc.

5. It gives prebuilt auth APIs to implement auth.

6. We use it as NO code CMS, as it gives prebuild basic building blocks

Pros

  • Free and open source.
  • CMS UI is nice and clean.
  • Customization options.
  • Regular updates and bug fixes.
  • Easy to find and understand docs.
  • Blogs available to learn more.
  • Plugin eco system.

Cons

  • Tutorial videos.
  • Use typescript for it's backend.
  • Detailed explanation of commands available.
  • More clear docs for releasing.

Return on Investment

  • Easy to setup.
  • Customize the ui.
  • Increased productivity.
  • Get prebuilt auth apis.
  • Customize the backend and add new apis.

Other Software Used

Flutter, by Google, Google AdMob, ClickUp