Strapi Headless CMS

Strapi is an open-source headless content management system founded by Pierre Burgy, Aurélien Geuder, and Jim LauriPantur in 2016, headquartered in Paris and San Francisco, providing a Node.js-based backend that generates REST and GraphQL APIs from content models defined through a visual admin panel, enabling developers to build content-driven applications without writing backend code, with a plugin architecture for extending functionality, self-hosted deployment, and a content type builder that creates database tables and API endpoints automatically, adopted by over one million projects including companies like IBM, Toyota, Rakuten, and L'Oréal for their content management needs. The content type builder provides a visual interface within the admin panel for creating and modifying content models called content types, with fields for text, rich text, numbers, booleans, dates, media files, relations to other content types, components for reusable field groups, dynamic zones for flexible content layouts, and enums, with each content type automatically generating CRUD API endpoints, database tables, and admin panel editing interfaces, enabling rapid prototyping and iteration without touching code or running migrations. The API layer automatically generates REST endpoints for each content type with filtering, sorting, pagination, population of relations, and localization support, while the GraphQL plugin generates a complete GraphQL schema with queries, mutations, and type definitions based on the content models, enabling flexible data fetching through a single endpoint. The role-based access control provides granular permissions at the route, content type, and field level, with public, authenticated, and custom roles. The media library for file uploads and image manipulation. The internationalization for multilingual content. The plugin marketplace. The deployment through Docker, Kubernetes, or bare metal. Designed for development teams.