ALL ABOUT STRAPI.IO

Strapi is a flexible, open-source Headless CMS that gives developers the freedom to choose their favorite tools and frameworks while also allowing editors to easily manage and distribute their content. By making the admin panel and API extensible through a plugin system, Strapi enables the world’s largest companies to accelerate content delivery while building beautiful digital experiences.

Why Strapi.io?

Strapi can generate an admin panel in a few clicks and get your whole CMS set up in a few steps.

Strapi’s admin panel gives you an intuitive interface to create, edit and delete your content and automatically creates logic to handle CRUD operations, including filtering and permissions.

It has a built-in user system that allows you to manage users Roles & Permissions

Plugin system & Customization —Every part of your application can be easily customized. Strapi’s architecture allows you to extend your app to match your exact use case and it allows you to install a plugin like GraphQL etc to your application

What’s Strapi tech stack?

To build, deploy, and manage Strapi use the following framework and programming languages.

Let’s Start with using Strapi-CLI

Pre-requirements: Node.js (>v12.x)

1. Create a new project

yarn create strapi-app my-project --quickstart

If you want to use a specific database, you don’t have to use the --quickstart flag. The CLI will let you choose the database of your choice.

By default, create-strapi-app will generate an empty Strapi project. If you want an application that is pre-configured for a specific use case than you can use --template with template GitHub URL

yarn create strapi-app my-project --template <template-github-url>

2. Start the project

yarn develop

Note: if created with --quickstart then it will automatically run your application.

3. Create the first admin user

Navigate to http://localhost:1337/admin and create a first admin user.

4. Create a Content-Type

• Navigate to Content-Type Builder from side pannel under Plugins
• Click on + Create new collection type link and create a new collection

Create a new collection

• Add one or more than one field for your collection

Add fields for the Collection

• Edit BASE SETTING and ADVANCE SETTING to add field names and properties.
• Click finish to update all the fields to collection
• and Save to save the collection.

5. Add content to your Collection

• Navigate to <Collection_Name> from side pannel under COLLECTION TYPES
• Click on + Add New Restaurant button to add a new entry.

Add new content to the collection

• Click on Save to update the changes.

6. Set Roles and Permissions

• Navigate to SETTINGS > USERS & PERMISSIONS PLUGIN > ROLES
• Click on Public Roles and scroll down to Permissions.

• Change the Permission for the collections routes that can access without auth and can update the action for every route from Advance Settings
• Change the USERS-PERMISSIONS public routes.

Note: Similarly we can update the Roles and Permissions for authenticated routes also.

Add Plugins to your Application

• Navigate to Marketplace

Marketplace

• Add your required Plugin for the application like Roles & Permissions for JWT authentication, GraphQL, etc.

Note: Roles & Permissions are pre-installed if you created with --quickstart so, you only need to update the roles and permissions from the Setting tab.

Manage Your Media Libray

• Navigate to Media Libray
• You can add/update/delete your media assets from a single panel.

Media Libray

Additional

We can create Theme and Components by using + Create New Single Type and + Create New Component in Content-Type Builder

Conclusion

• Here we are! Your collection is accessible at http://localhost:1337/
• Consume your API with your favorite frameworks, frontend or backend programming languages like React, Vue.js, React Native, Ruby, and many more.

Find the complete example project on Github, and Postman files for Postman Collection and Postman Environment.