Open-source headless CMS, self-hosted or Cloud you’re in control.

The leading open-source headless CMS, 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, flexible and fully customizable.

Strapi is an open-source headless CMS that empowers developers to create stunning, content-rich applications with ease.

With Strapi, you can manage your content in a customizable admin panel, which can be easily adapted to suit your specific needs. This powerful CMS provides you with complete control over your content, allowing you to create, edit, and publish content across multiple platforms and devices.

With just one click, you can deploy your Strapi project to the Railway cloud platform, and in about 5 minutes of avg. build time: you get a template that gives you a foundation for your blogs and websites.

Strapi Community Edition is a free and open-source headless CMS enabling you to manage any content, anywhere.

• Modern Admin Pane: Elegant, entirely customizable and a fully extensible admin panel.
• Multi-database support: You can choose the database you prefer: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, and SQLite.
• Customizable: You can quickly build your logic by fully customizing APIs, routes, or plugins to fit your needs perfectly.
• Blazing Fast and Robust: Built on top of Node.js and TypeScript, Strapi delivers reliable and solid performance.
• Front-end Agnostic: Use any front-end framework (React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, etc.), mobile apps or even IoT.
• Secure by default: Reusable policies, CORS, CSP, P3P, Xframe, XSS, and more.
• Powerful CLI: Scaffold projects and APIs on the fly.

NOTES

• When this template is running on Railway Strapi will connect to the Postgres Database through the private network, saving you on database egress fees

Developing locally

When developing locally this Strapi template will connect to the Postgres server from its public TCP Proxy

• Enable the feature flag Template Service Eject in the Feature Flags menu
• Within the service settings of the Strapi service click the Eject button on the upstream repository
• Clone that newly created repository locally
• Install Strapi's dependencies with yarn install or npm install
• Install the Railway CLI
  • Instructions for that can be found here
  • If this is your first time using the CLI make sure to login with railway login
• Within the local repository run railway link to link the local repository to the Strapi service on Railway
• Start Strapi for development with railway run yarn run develop or railway run npm run develop
  • This command will run Strapi in development mode with the service variables available locally
• Open your browser to http://127.0.0.1:1337/admin