Re:APIs in less than 5 minutes with Strapi
by pictur on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:57AM
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strapi is a very good tool. but I don't think most of its features are suitable for production. it seems to be progressing in a continuous experimental state.
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Re:APIs in less than 5 minutes with Strapi
by cerberusss on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @04:02AM
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What did you try to build with it? In how far did that succeed? And did you find a better alternative?
As an app developer, this looks pretty great. I can just click together a backend and don't have to futz around in PHP or Python.
Re:APIs in less than 5 minutes with Strapi
by vSanjo on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @05:23AM
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I'll throw in my 2c. It was my first adventure into a Node.js CMS and used MongoDB for it's database. I'm a Javascript and Frontend Developer.
I've found it chaotically buggy - that is, sometimes it's great, amazing, works as expected and other times it simple fails quietly and in such a way I can't reverse easily - chaotic.
Saving changes to fields is hit-and-miss. Anything 'metadata'-related towards fields is a scary thing now. We use it for a particularly lightweight project but I wish we didn't after experiencing it enough now.
Note: I'm aware of its status, I still think they consider themselves 'alpha' and the developer that chose this was aware of the risks.
Re:APIs in less than 5 minutes with Strapi
by cerberusss on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @11:54AM
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Thanks a lot!
Re:APIs in less than 5 minutes with Strapi
by johnzhou on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @05:56AM
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They still don't have a way to separate administrators from editors in the backend. I found Directus to be a good alternative for headless CMS.
Re:APIs in less than 5 minutes with Strapi
by cerberusss on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @11:54AM
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Sounds good, will have a look!