Strapi

Vorteile

Strapi - as the name suggest - is an API builder tool which helps you to manage data that is being consumed by frontends and other apps. This functionality is done very well.
Strapi provides hooks and cycles to modify data coming in and out of it. But these need to be programmatically configured.
Good thing is the Strapi authentification layer and CDN for images.

Nachteile

As Strapi does not provide you with a Frontend it is hard to get the initial concept and add functionality. Every change in the Admin triggers a restart of Strapi and basically means downtime.
Sometimes the database gets vacuumed while you try to work with endpoints. This can very frustrating. Same as the responses from Strapi which include nested objects and those are hard to orientate in while consuming the data.

Vorteile

- The self-hosted option is simply incredible, especially for smaller companies or in our case, non-for-profit
- Easy to setup, does what you need without being complicated
- Third party integrations make Strapi an extremely flexible solution for many project types
- The API is really easy to use, from setup to a working site in mere minutes

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- Documentation could be improved, especially around production deployment and a few more common use examples in the filtering/populate space ahead of the real complex examples already there e.g. relationships or depth
- A type reference to explain how to use or access for example TypeScript types for things like Rich text (blocks). Shouldn't need to find solutions outside Strapi to do this.
- This is the same for all CMSs. Cloud hosted plans for small businesses / non-for-profit / infrequently updated sites.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Warum Strapi gewählt wurde

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Strapi

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Open source, we can host it ourselves, active community, lots of features and extensions.

Nachteile

The Docker image is one major version behind but this is not made clear until you've spent hours trying to get it all working and then check the forums.

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I really like the Content-type Builder and how Strapi generates all the needed API endpoints.

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If you decide to host Strapi on your own server it's not very easy. Also, there's a learning curve when it comes to creating custom plugins.

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To be able to create an API for landing pages in a matter of hours. I created many types of section for my landing and I could start integrating my frontend the next day. My site grew ever since and Strapi made it super easy to add more sections and evolve with time.

Nachteile

One of the main thing I don't like about Strapi is the fact that it doesn't have a good way to be updated easily. I am using a deployment system and I wish I could update it from the admin panel itself. I need to use the command line and to redeploy everytime there is an update. Updating something frequently should not be something negative, but it is with Strapi because I am always in need to keep it up to date.

The only other thing, is the lack of Responsive on the admin panel.

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Easy setup, complete API manager. It saves you sooo much time compared to a "normal" node backend application.

Nachteile

The fact that Strapi has a "quick and dirty" image (and name) makes it harder to sell or mention it as part of a solution to a customer. Even though he/she may greatly benefit from it, it takes more than an average amout of convincing them Strapi can easily be considered to be coroporate grade material.

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1. It gives nice and clean UI CMS
2. regular update and bug fixes
3. auth apis come inbuilt and easy to customize
4. docs are very helpful
5. community is very nice
6. backend is in nodjs and can be customized
7. so many options for plugins and easy to add
8. develop the apis fast

Nachteile

1. No support for typescript we have to use javascript
2. no official plugins in vscode which helps in developing
3. the docs for publishing are not much helpful
4. Need some to get familier

Vorteile

It is very user friendly and most important part is plugins. I love those plugins. Even there is a way for me to create a plugin. API customization is one another plus I would say and it is easier too. I was using strapi from 3.x.x till now. I'm really liked the way it evolved.

Nachteile

Review workflow is part of enterprise plan, which atleast I believe should be given in free plan with restriction, completely removing is kind of making the opensource user to completly staying away from the feature.

Vorteile

- Perfect product for any developer or entrepreneur jumping from idea to testing.
- Quick setup and launch
- Awesome Dashboard that gives you a great overview of your db & data.
- Ready-made Auth-system

Nachteile

- Customization can be quite challenging and documentation on Services & Controllers needs to be improved.
- Lots of free plugins available from the community but few are maintained or updated.

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Earlier I used to create my APIs on ExpressJS and it used to take hell lot of time in creating and testing them. But with Strapi I can create any sort of APIs in just 5-10 minutes. It's that easy!Role Based Access Control, that too in the free plan is a super-power to any business or developer. I really loved it. And now as a freelancer I can create almost any type of web-apps - be it CRM, HRM, Hotel Management system or anything with ease.

Nachteile

I wish there were in built aggregator functions in Strapi. That will help developers write custom services and controllers very easily. Additionally, there should be some extra options to change Strapi Branding. Right now we can only change the logo. We should be able to update the color scheme, Brand name and login page template. These additions will be really great!

Vorteile

Automatic creation of API endpoints based on content types, Role Based Access Control, Authentication, Querying and Media Library features reduces the time of app development.

Nachteile

Some parts of the Strapi documentation are not clear. It may be necessary to search the forum and the internet for things that can be easily explained with an additional sentence in the documentation.

Vorteile

Strapi could easily paywall their entire software like many do, but instead contributed an amazing software to the open source community. There are also many starter projects to get started quickly, tutorials, blog posts, and tons of documentation.

Nachteile

At the moment, Strapi doesn't work on Vercel. This is unfortunate, but that shouldn't stop anyone from using it. Surely it will be supported in the future!

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Ease of use and that it was JavaScript native.

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The fact that every time a change is saved, it takes a long time for the server to restart. It needs to restart much much faster.

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Easy to configure and use for content mgmt (blog articles)

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I wish I could add/insert/embed images within the content.

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Easy to use and easy to setup and looking forward to continue using for a long time

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We need to host strapi separately so it is a disadvantage

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Easy to integrate with another software.

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I dont think there is and disadvantage up to niw

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It's really easy to create a data model and have a usable API and admin panel for it. This feature is so good that it's almost worth putting up with all the snags.

Nachteile

The migration of code from v3 to v4 codebases was painful. It took several months for basic tooling (like database migration) to be available, and over a year later it is still not as good as it should have been.Migration between versions is not easy (upgrade versions of several dependencies, then find blog posts about migrations, which often ask you to run scripts on your code/ database). This could be automated, surely. Documentation for features often covers only one usecase, and is written in blogpost style. Even on their own documentation (not the guides)Plugins are not simple to write and the documentation on it is not clear. You can allegedly use TypeScript to write plugins but the plugin interface types are not well defined, so you're kind of on your own.You can't use Yarn v3+ with it.Deployment is not straightforward, I guess this is an incentive to use their paid service.

Vorteile

There are multiple benefits of Strapi and the most important one is the backend settings. This software has improved many features and allows the best website interface along with customizable modes. So, you can create the best graphic designs and other routes using this impeccable tool.

Nachteile

One of the worst drawbacks of Strapi is the inability of this software to support internalization. Moreover, all alt-tags couldn't be used and it is complicated to use this software. The user should have proper skills to manage the features and keys of this tool. The utmost important modifications that Strapi software needs are the backend setting. The tool doesn't support the typescript backend language which is quite disappointing. So, the documentation process also gets difficult here and the Strapi system needs instant updates that they usually don't provide. Thus, the creators should look upon these issues.

Vorteile

Strapi is highly configurable and very extendable, if you know Node.js there isn't much you cant make it do, I like it for this reason. its also got very good documentation.

Nachteile

Upgrading between major versions is very hard, but this is true of most software. Because its free, support isn't really there

Vorteile

It goes without saying but Strapi atm is simplest to setup, install and deploy. Part of the reason is that Strapi has an admin UI that covers a lot of aspects of content and API management but still has room for customizations. Strapi is easy to extend on admin-level and plays nicely with other services due to it exposing the API, webhooks and easy extension on code-level.

Nachteile

Limited roles on free/open-source version are only 3. With the newer Strapi versions, they've limit the number of roles and you need to pay even if it's self-hosted.

Vorteile

Strapi is extremely easy to setup
Simple database configuration with many choices (Mongo, Postgres, and MySQL)
Simple to modify the backend code
Getting up and running from zero to a complete API with data in as little as 10 to 20 minutes

Nachteile

I do think that more time needs to be spent on building a solid foundation (which the Strapi team are working on)

More time needs to be spent testing bugs for all usecases (or some automation for the frontend testing needs to be implemented and I believe that is being done right now)

While not an issue with the software itself, I do think that services like Heroku need to be put on the backburner and not pushed as heavily as Strapi is a service, Heroku and other "serverless" environments are not built to handle complex applications. At the same time more user involvment with Pull Requests are something that would greatly help development and bug fixing.

Vorteile

It is open-source.
It is Restifull but has support for GraphQL
It provides the Playground to build and test your queries and mutations.
Docker support.
All data is yours, that is, you have full control over your database.
The project receives frequent investments from large companies.
Extremely easy and quick to start a project.

Nachteile

Relationships in the database are still a critical and sometimes problematic point.
It has no migrations of data.
There is no 2FA.
It does not delete unnecessary tables and columns from the database.
Typescript is not supported.

Vorteile

I like that it brings ease and speed when creating api and content managers.

Nachteile

I find it a little complex to move and customize yet!

Vorteile

I'm building a running related platform that features unique running events around the world.

I'm doing this as a part time "gig" because I have full time job.

For the front end I settled on react which seems to do the trick.

For the backend there were lots of options but my requirements were: easy UI for editors, configurable data model, graphql and an easy way to customize the functionality.

In other words, I wanted something that would get me up and running in no time but that I could also fine tune down the road for custom features.

After spending a significant amount of time researching hosted, self-hosted, open source and commercial offerings I found strapi.

It ticked every one of my requirement boxes and then some. It's even able to run on postgres which is my favorite db.

Now I'm working full speed to launch my website and figure out my content instead of spending months trying to build a backend and UI for it from scratch.

Nachteile

Would be nice to have an easy launcher or AMI for AWS. Seems like deployment options could be better documented.

Vorteile

The flexibility available in Strapi is fantastic, it's a pleasure to develop and build with. From the lifecycle hooks through to built in auth and a large variety of default field types.
There's a really excellent community attached to Strapi too.

Nachteile

No real complaints, but I am excited for v4 as the CMS does look a little dated (but still far from bad, and very functional).

Vorteile

1. You can get a production ready REST API backend for you super duper hit mobile or web app in mere 20 minutes.
2. Ease with which you can select different database types.

Nachteile

User management module can have customer role user facing dashboard too.

Vorteile

Strapi allow us to create a Backend environment with ease by reducing development times through a very good API

Nachteile

The software is on its early versions, it needs to improve the way to update the cms.

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It is true. Strapi is very convenient to use and also customize. It works using plugins and makes it really easy to stay organised. No more will you have to re-write boring redundent API codes.

Nachteile

Can't really say anything bad about it right now other than the fact there the learning curve can be slightly big and the lack of videos online when learning.

Vorteile

How easy it is to get started. You literally have a single CLI command, go through the process of setting up the connection to the database, and you're ready to work.

From there, the UI/UX is great. During the development, it's important that prototying is FAST, which it is. The customization of views and data types is just the cherry on top.

Support for GraphQL comes in form of a plugin that you install with a single click. That's it. Now you have GraphQL. In a single click.

The documentation is automatically generates for your API is concise and to the point.

Nachteile

I'm waiting for out-of-the-box TypeScript support. It's planned, so I'm not worried.

Sometimes, the UI shows an error when updating the component, even though the operation was successful. You just refresh the page and it works.

Vorteile

One of the most important feature was graph-ql end points, which was much needed adapter our frontend stack.

Nachteile

Doesn't have plugin ecosystem as that of wordpress

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Warum Strapi gewählt wurde

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Strapi

Vorteile

The simplicity of use. It's very easy to use and have so much options to make simple to create a api that my web applications needed.

Nachteile

Its not simple to deploy it on production servers, especially on AWS and Heroku. I have so much issues before have success to deploy it on theses servers.

Vorteile

Strapi is written on React, which makes it very attractive for the community of JS developers, the application is easy to develop and with a simple and functional UI.

Nachteile

The UI provides a too simplistic UI view but separates the users of the app from the users to connect to the API, which is quite confusing, in addition, to have a three roles limit which makes the app extremely unattractive to force the user if the want to growth the will have to pay for a monthly subscription.

Vorteile

- Setting up a new project is extremely simple
- Layout is great
- Supports many database types
- API creation is flexible and very customizable (as advertised)

Nachteile

- Minor annoying bugs (alpha version)
- Not many plugins/extensions yet
- Internationalization features are missing

Vorteile

Strapi does a great job managing the basic structure of a CMS and including a lot of backend logic you'll probably use in your application.

Nachteile

It's still a infant compared to other CMS applications like Drupal and Wordpress (which supports API-only acess nowadays)

Vorteile

Strapi is easy to use and the included GUI allows setting up data, performing admin tasks and creating endpoints intuitive and simple. I also like the hooks that allow me to add standard functionality.

Nachteile

So far I haven't found anything not to like. I used to have to write custom code, now Strapi has eliminated much of this code.

Vorteile

Highly customizable, beautiful and intuitive interface and the large amount of databases avaliable to use with.

Nachteile

It is on an Alpha state, so it is dangerous to rely on it for production. The ecosystem of plugins is on its infancy, so you would writing some common tasks (and potentially critical, like verifying payments)

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Having zero knowledge about node I was able to quickly jump in and make an API for an iOS app, once I got stuck I was able to dig into the code and even managed to fix an issue with one of the DB drivers.

Nachteile

It’s changing too fast, but that was expected given that is an alpha.

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Strapi is ease to use, totally functional and extensible with your needs. Already support graphQL and is using koa framework so is totally updated with news technology.

Nachteile

I missed some languages translations only.

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I loved the nice admin dashboard, the simple setup and the addition of authentication

Nachteile

I don't have any serious concern yet. I will give more information later

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Very user friendly and easy to use , for a beginner who want's to start developing api's this is by far one of my favorites

Nachteile

So far nothing nothing made me dislike this software

Vorteile

well, the ease of use is unique
CRUD API in minutes
runnable inside Docker

Nachteile

the alpha still has some bugs - but thats not really a con (its alpha)

Vorteile

The flexibility that allows the developer to really customize the data schema when building the entities and relationships.

Nachteile

The CLI was not working the best when creating a startup project. The easy install has you type in which db to use, but mine was defaulting to others. I just explicitly called all the parameters in the install command and it worked that way. Not a big deal, but could be a major road block for a new developer.

Vorteile

easy to use
simple to setup and to configure
support graphql

Nachteile

still in alpha
no many plugins available

Vorteile

Rest and graphql
Builtin admin panel
Fast and easy setup

Nachteile

Support only 3 db
Not powerfull as feathersjs

Vorteile

1.Flexibility
2.MultiLanguage support
3.Customization

Nachteile

1.I have used umbraco cms.As of now there is no cons.

Vorteile

Strapi is actively being developed and extended to fit the needs of the growing user base. The community around Strapi including the Slack channel have been very helpful. We were able to start prototyping​immediately​ with Strapi and built a mobile client and a web user panel on top of it (got to love REST+Oauth)!

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While active development means that popular features are implemented as they are requested by the community, some less popular features may take longer to realize​.

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The way to setup a api quickly without much coding, but still understanding te basics.

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The problems with windows, this slowed down my start. But vm's offered a solution and after a good development setup I was very well on my way.

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It is easy to use and implementvery intuitive

Nachteile

Currently I have not seen consI think it's an excellent option

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The easy and really quick way to create content type and data and access to it with Postman.

Nachteile

The little bug about default value for enumerated type.

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It's ambiguous, it can most likely help you considerably because you can do so much with it out of the box. Doesn't try to provide a solution boxed in dated software paradigms. I wanted to build this before I knew Strapi was available. Was built far better than I could have imagined. So many uses for it.

Nachteile

Strapi is still evolving, though it is still amazing.