Presentation on Strapi CMS. It provides a quick introduction, explaining the what, why and how of the Strapi capabilities. Presentation includes a working demo for setting up a Strapi instance, define content type and author content.

1. A QUICK INTRODUCTION TO STRAPI
ASHOKKUMAR T.A. | 28-MAR-20201

2. WHAT IS STRAPI
 BootStrap your API
 A headless CMS
 Based on Javascript, Node.js
 Easily create content, manage users & permissions
 Stores content to database - SQL & NoSQL supported
 Plugin architecture
 Community & Enterprise editions

3. WHY STRAPI
 If you need headless CMS - Strapi provides a compelling choice
 Fully opensource, generated code behind, easily customizable
 Marketplace for plugins – does not have a huge collection now, but bound to grow as usage picks up
 Supports variety of databases (SQL & NoSQL) for storage – helps adopting to your enterprise standard
 REST & GraphQL APIs for content consumption
 Fits well in the microservices architecture

4. GETTING STARTED
 Content-Types Builder
 Collection Types
 Users & Permissions
 Authentication providers
 Roles
 Permissions – API endpoint based (separate permissions for count, find, findone)
 Code behind
 Config, Controllers, Models, Services

5. DEMO
 Install & create admin user
 Create collection types
 Student
 Course
 Training
 Author content – Draft vs. Publish
 Grant permission
 Default roles – public & authenticated
 Test content APIs

6. PLUGINS
 We already used these plugins in the demo
 Content type builder
 Roles & Permissions
 Content Manager
 Other OOB plugins
 Email
 Media library
 Key plugins in marketplace
 GraphQL
 Documentation

7. CONTENT TYPES BUILDER
 Types
 Enumeration
 Relation
 Component
 Dynamic Zone
 Content types
 Component – Create your custom types
 Single vs. collection type

8. MEDIA LIBRARY PLUGIN
 Basic functionalities
 Storage for media content
 Alt text & Caption
 (for consistent display across channels)
 No custom metadata support

9. DOCUMENTATION PLUGIN
 npm run strapi install documentation
 Or click download from marketplace
console
 Generates Swagger API
documentation
 Customize – full_documentation.json
 Regenerate documentation

10. GRAPHQL PLUGIN
 npm run strapi install graphql
 Or click download from
marketplace console
 And you are ready to go… (at
least for this demo ☺)
 http://localhost:1337/graphql
 Token authentication for
secure environment

11. NOT THERE (YET) ON
 Restarts on content type updates 
 On content type modification – Strapi instance gets restarted.
 Content Versioning
 strapi-plugin-versioning – BUT?
 Publishing workflows
 Has only draft/publish – most enterprises need more
 Assets Management
 Media library is very basic
 Content tagging
 No built-in support. Has to be modelled custom type

12. DISCUSSION

13. THANKYOU
Feedback and suggestions welcome.
Please write to ashokkumar.ta@gmail.com