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🚀 Welcome to the Strapi documentation!
Strapi is the open source headless CMS developers love.
What is Strapi?
Strapi, the most flexible open-source Headless CMS gives developers the freedom to use their favorite tools and frameworks while helping editors to easily manage their content and distribute anywhere. By making the admin panel and API easily customizable and extensible through a plugin system, Strapi enables the world’s largest companies to accelerate content delivery while building better digital experiences.
::: tip Where the name come from?
Strapi come from Bootstrap your API 🎉
It's the origin purpose of the project.
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Features
Custom content structure
With the admin panel of Strapi, you will be able to create the content structure that match your needs. Create it in just few clicks. Really fast to getting started.
Manage content
The Strapi's admin panel provide you an intuitive interface to create edit and delete your content.
Developer-friendly API
Your content have to be displayed on your devices, an API is required. Strapi provide you an API that match your need. Fetch the data you want via a REST API or via the GraphQL endpoint.
Roles & permissions
A User system is built in Strapi, that let you manage how can access to what.
Plugin system
You want a new feature in you application, fetch a plugin in the market place and tada! You can install a GraphQL endpoint in one command.
Customization
You can customize every single pice of your application. The architecture of Strapi let you customize your app to match your exact needs.
Don't stay stuck by the techno you choose.
The Strapi Ecosystem
Code Source
Strapi is an Open Source project, all the source code is under the MIT licence. The core project is in the strapi/strapi GitHub repository and you will find all other tools into the Strapi GitHub organization.
Marketplace
In the marketplace section of the admin panel, you will only found official Strapi plugins. For now, the Strapi marketplace is not open to everyone but will be soon, stay tuned.
But you already can develop yours and publish them on npm.
Roadmap
Strapi is a community oriented project. We are trying to be the more transparent as possible to let you have a vision on the future of the project. Your insights are really important too to help to develop the project in the right direction. The Roadmap is open, feel free to add your insights.
Tutorials and Guides
To help you using Strapi, we and the community provide you a suite of resources to let you achieve your goals. You will find tutorials on the website and guides into the documentation.
Demo
You can discover Strapi in few minutes by watching the demo video or by requesting a live demo via the form present in the Demo page.
Blog
For long-form news and announcements the best place to keep up to date with everything happening is our blog.
Social media
We maintain a handful of social media accounts to keep in touch with the community directly and give them updates about what's new with Strapi. Here are the easiest ways to keep track of Strapi and everything hapening around the web: