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Most Helpful Reviews for Strapi
1 - 5 of 60 Reviews
Derrick
Verified reviewer
Computer Games, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed February 2019
API Framework / Headless CMS Made easy (and free)
Honestly this is by far the easiest solution for jumping into the headless CMS world and even better as an API framework to power whatever your needs are; Web, Mobile, Desktop, IOT, and even a smart toaster! The Strapi team is great and works hard to release feature and fix bugs as fast as they can.
PROSStrapi 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
CONSI 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.
Jakub
Verified reviewer
Design, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed February 2024
Strapi - a great API builder and a bad site builder
Generally Strapi is a great tool with the aim to be a robust CMS for large projects. I have use it to build/manage site which include live streaming, media portals and ecommerce. The "managing" part is fine, but most of the advanced functionality has to be coded additionally.
PROSStrapi - 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.
CONSAs 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.
Reason for choosing Strapi
Strapi included the concept of dynamic zones which are comparable to Content Blocks in other CMSs.
Reasons for switching to Strapi
I needed custom functionality and a good developer experience.
Paul
Internet, 2-10 employees
OVERALL RATING:
2
EASE OF USE
2
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
2
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2022
Promising but difficult to deploy and use
While I was very positive about trying Strapi the Docker image problem soured it and I found alternatives that worked better.
PROSOpen source, we can host it ourselves, active community, lots of features and extensions.
CONSThe 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.
Reason for choosing Strapi
We didn't, we chose GraphCMS (now Hygraph.)
Guillaume
Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2023
Great for Landing pages
I have been using Strapi for 3 years and it is a product that I am trying to push to others everytime they need a solution. I mainly use Strapi for frontend site and I rarely use it as an API to an app. But for content management, Strapi beats products like Contentful and Sanity in my eyes because it is open source and you can host it anywhere you want.
PROSTo 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.
CONSOne 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.
Reasons for switching to Strapi
I wanted a self hosted solution to keep control of where my data is stored.
Anonymous
2-10 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2022
Strapi Experience
The overall experience was very nice , i used it get cms and backend in nodejs. very easy to use it . Best CMS.
PROS1. 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
CONS1. 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
Reasons for switching to Strapi
strapi gives Cms and easy to customize . Gives auth apis prebuilt.