Strapi.js Crash Course | Headless CMS

In this video we will look at the Strapi headless CMS and create a REST API with JWT authentication all from the admin area of Strapi
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[@TraversyMedia]

Just think of the code you would have to write just for a REST API with relationships, JWT authentication, roles, error handling and so much more. We do it all here from a GUI. There are pros and cons to using a CMS vs custom code, but Strapi is also easy to customize if needed. Awesome technology. And no this is not sponsored, it is just something I think is amazing

[@anirudhagandhare6294]

That is something i was Searching for 😅

[@codewithhanoak]

Nice.

[@_Monimal]

That is very awesome piece of software and a good way to create simple REST APIs also for Frontend-Developers :) Thank you for your good videos!!

[@khandoor7228]

I found Strapi about 2 weeks ago and love it. Great timing from you Brad I was going to spend this weekend doing a deep dive. Thanks!

[@kirin9991]

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[@JackSparrah]

I love how whenever I'm researching some new technology and want to learn more about it, Brad already has a crash course video made, and it's always at the top of the search results and happens to be fairly recent too. This has happened a few times now, but it still amazes me every time. Thank you Brad!!

[@ryanpeterson9562]

Brad, your courses helped get me a job last year and your videos are helping me help push the agency I work for forward. Thanks for all of your work, I'm happy to buy any course you put out in the future.

[@limitless4766]

which of his courses?

[@muhammadayub1929]

This video just released at the perfect time as I recently began working with Strapi at work to create RESP API's!

[@vkray]

Suhaib Ayub Good choice. I’ve been working on Strapi from last 3 months.

[@aswadali7547]

Oh my god! How is this even possible? Just a few days ago I searched your channel for a tutorial on Strapi and just now you released that very tutorial, you definitely have a secret technique up your sleeves. Sir Brad, you are the best.

[@davidnichol4735]

I just finished up building my first MERN CRUD API, and now I never have to suffer through that again. These are happy tears. Edit: Build a project with react!!

[@vkray]

Nice job. Mongodb is using less in real-time projects. Try to learn Postgres. Mongodb sucks for relationships.

[@OzzyTheGiant]

Haha, you shouldn't have to feel that way when building an API. It's honestly not that hard, just takes some experience and getting used to. After a while, you'll know how to build routes, set up and configure the database, create the queries needed for your app, and convert them to JSON, not just for Node.js but for any programming language.

[@arslanali774]

whenever i want to quick start a technology, i come to this channel and i get the required knowledge to get started with it. thanks man.

[@andrewbrstein]

You do not know how much I love the fact that you just uploaded this. I literally only watch your tutorials and walkthroughs over anyone else. Great work my friend! 🙏

[@pioleonardo]

I am a Stimulsoft Reports developer and I decided to try learning Strapi and choose Brad Traversy video to learn from it. Thanks Brad. You are awesome!

[@dunzek943]

I'm blown away. Before I only knew Vue.js, but as if Strapi.js wasn't enough I also got introduced to Postman. Wow.

[@M4CARBINE556]

Great video Brad! This is exactly what I was looking for. I'm a new freelance web developer and this is a great way to add backend functionality to sites for clients without having to write tones of code every time. I'd love to see a video on connecting Strapi to a React app.

[@paulhitchmough]

*Strapi Version 4* For anyone watching this video, you may be surprised by the differences between Version 3 used in this video, and Version 4 that would be installed if you followed this guide. Amazing guide still, and enough to help a seasoned coder understand Strapi and its strengths, but it took quite a bit of looking through the Documentation to work out where certain things were, and how to access other features.

[@keithrussel]

I'm having a hard time to install the version 4. After the installation the admin page resulting in a blank page only.

[@DanielScottFilms]

Just booted up my very first install of Strapi and I instanstantly knew this is going to be a huge tool for my workflow. Thanks for sharing!

[@patricktobias4232]

Been using this framework for the past few months now and the experience is really great! You get to deploy features really fast due to the vast features you can use.

[@bharathravi7820]

I had been behind Strapi right after the alpha version released. It's so much joy that the product is finally getting the space it deserves. I hope this will inspire many to try it out, amazing work by you like always! Thanks!

[@jatinkukreja18]

Bharath Ravi Hey did you find any success in deploying it on a live site?

[@ameetshrestha6424]

Strapi surely is amazing. It has been a couple of days since I started learning Strapi. I was relying on its documentation and was searching for a latest tutorial video for this headless CMS. And then notification popped up from your channel for this crash course. More than a happy. Thank you so much. Keep up your good work.

[@dutchman55]

Hey I learned to code from you like 5 years ago... I am the SME for Strapi at my company (the largest retailer in the US), it’s a really nice tool! It’s seeing more and more use in the industry and I’m super excited to see you covering it!!

[@paalwilliams4169]

Thanks for making this! I've been following Strapi for a while and have been wishing more people made tutorials about it. Stoked to watch.

[@mdsadiqurrahman9786]

Headless CMS is amazing. There are some services out there that provide serverless and headless CMS, but I believe most would not feel very comfortable to put a middleman into their application. But strapi is solving that. They give you the dashboard and let you do however you want to manage it. Thanks for the effort 👍

[@eduriseworld]

Coming up with Technologies we have never heard of. Wow.

[@thakurbhanupratap2613]

That's what we love about Traversy Media

[@TraversyMedia]

This is one of the coolest things I have come across lately. What we did in this video from the GUI, would take hours to code from scratch.

[@eduriseworld]

@@TraversyMedia I can totally relate. Things are getting so simpler these days. I remember in 2017 when I was learning CSS by myself no body told me about Bootstrap and I ended up creating the complete Navbar with dropdown with pure HTML and CSS. I put in more than 10 hours to do that. As I was pretty new to programming.

[@universal4334]

@@eduriseworld now I am in the same position where you had in 2017 ....just recently I heard all these things like WordPress , wordflow ......and myself raising questions, why to code from scratch rather than using wordflow , wordpress ....could you please let me know why to code rather than using these ....

[@akhilthakur251]

@@universal4334 see it's depends on project to project. WordPress will give you certain level of customization. But if you are at intial stage of your career I would recommend start from scratch.It will help you to understand the core concepts. In WordPress try to create post type with plugin kind of stuff you can learn.

[@kefamutuma6516]

I just learnt about strapi from scoth.io and wondered why no one had made a tut about this. Well done sir, Always ahead of the game.

[@luximperium4164]

I commented a few weeks ago on here when I first was learning this. Now I've made a full website with this as the back end for my mom to use to easily change the content on her site. It's easy to use for those who don't know anything about coding, but can easily use things like social media. Highly recommend to those handing off websites to people who don't know code.

[@shubhpratapsingh1794]

hey man i have some doubts regarding the deployment...can I contact u somehow...?

[@parrisgjerde9212]

As one who’s been scratching their head on (headless) CMS systems, this Strapi overview was fantastic, thanks!

[@TechnicalAhmed]

Thank you Brad, thank you so much for giving us the precious content and helping us in building our career and future. We love you ♥️

[@rubinelezi7133]

This tool does my 99% backend job

[@jesusidev]

I just launched an API with strapi and digital ocean. Was a pain but the tutorial help on strapi. Great video.

[@beastgaming1772]

I just bought two of your courses javascript and react man you're amazing

[@Sillyvan]

i absolutely love this. i thought about making a own webshop and this literally has all the functionality i wanted. this saves me ALOT of time

[@pacera3066]

I tried learning strapi the other month and had some trouble! Amazing timing with this video and headless CMS!!!

[@tshawchit]

I installed strapi a week ago, and was busy to check out it's features. Thanks Brad :D

[@Vue-daigle]

This Strapi.js is what we've been looking for years now ! Can't wait for the next video ... Thank you Brad :D

[@genehenson8851]

Every time that I want to try something new, Traversy Media has me covered with a crash course. Thanks for the work brother.

[@StanielBG]

Very nice Crash Course! I also started using Strapi and i'm very happy with it. It's awesome for people without much Back-end knowledge.

[@sunilanthony17]

This is pretty good. I always build my backend with .net core but this gives me options to work faster.

[@wovasteengova]

have you used it yet? How do you like it?

[@kunalmahajan7761]

I'm just here to appreciate your hardwork and smart work! Thank you for everything!

[@wovasteengova]

Im almost done with my express app and of course i run into this new technology now. LOL. I can't decide if i should use it or finish the app😂😂

[@edenr1988]

Awesome preview, I really enjoy watching your tutorials, you makes things very clear and simple! Thank you for sharing this!😄

[@НиколайСладкий-н4к]

Strapi is great technology! I using it since 2018 and have a lot of projects in production. I can recommend it!

[@fluntimes]

I've been wanting to learn Strapi ever since I started learning Gatsby in the past few months. Thanks Brad.

[@themineworkers4026]

and i was just googling this a couple of days ago thanks a bunch man

[@said8101]

Brad the teachers Teacher !! Just wanna thank you for your work, really appreciate it. You’re a Genius. Hope to get at least half as good as you in coding one day

[@guiltygreen]

Super helpful, thank you so much for this video! Really broke it down into easy to understand bits. I've watched a few Strapi tutorials now, and I think yours is the best.

[@KJMacoustic]

This tech just blew my mind! Thank you so much for making this video!!

[@leslie7922]

I've been wanting a decent open source headless CMS tutorial. Thanks for this I'll follow it through later today. Dropping a like now though :)

[@kendallhayes4917]

This is gold. Thank you so much for making a headless CMS so easy to learn how to use.

[@riexrickgaming]

JUST ABOUT LOOKING FOR CMS, THIS GOT RECOMMENDED, YOU ARE THE BEST

[@rawrbearmedia1426]

Looking forward to a full app build with Strapi! Great video as always, Brad!

[@gitstray6019]

Thank you very much for creating this - I'm was wondering if you would do an example on how to interact Strapi with React. Then how to deploy React to a server. What are the best settings and best areas to host these sites. I've been watching your videos for a while. I really appreciate you doing these and how thorough you are.

[@donphelix5266]

How do you do it, Brad? What drives you to make this super cool videos? How do you normally plan yourself, man? How was your first video on youtube? Were you having some chills in your heart? I am just curious bro.

[@SFDCFacts]

This is amazing. Quick and easy way to setup backend apis.

[@santosjuniormartemarte8928]

Surely you don't have a community that makes you aware of all those great projects? you are great i like it.

[@reginaborgno1521]

Thank you so much Brad!! I was looking for something like this!! You're always bringing us the best stuff!!

[@amirhosseinkhurizadeh8920]

Brad always on time, I was looking for a tutorial on Strapi.js. Thx Brad.

[@bliggode]

outstanding video. quick and good examples explaining the details.

[@SaiPravesh]

Great tech, headless CMS is now becoming so popular with frontend javascript libraries in every project. Looking forward to see a full stack app with Strapi and react from you.

[@The2233AHMED]

thank you so much Travis, amazing like always, I would love to watch a full-stack course with Strapi.js and React.js.

[@muzafferhassan]

Thanks for the short but effective video on Starpi

[@giannistek1]

Just posting this for myself 8:00 GET Request 13:22 POST Login Request

[@NerdyKatsChannel]

Yessssss!!!! I have been waiting for you to do this!!! So awesome 😎

[@EthanG298]

this seems a lot better than the WordPress headless cms

[@ThatGuyAnonymous]

Strapi is truly amazing, it saves a lot of time. Great video man 👌

[@gabrielgutierrez641]

Thank you for this crash course. I think it'll change my developer life!

[@NeverCodeAlone]

very nice overview - thx for your passion my friend!!

[@kirin9991]

i was looking at this a few days before, but lazy to look at the docs thanks!

[@lyqht]

This is a really great introduction to strapi! Thank you for this crash course :D

[@OzzyTheGiant]

I've been wanting to get into building websites with user-controlled content, specifically for the food service, car dealership, and real estate industries. Naturally Wordpress seemed like an obvious choice, but I'm so annoyed with the industry continuing to ride that bandwagon and not noticing that there are better, more efficient alternatives out there. Glad to know Strapi exists; will be using this along with Gridsome for static site generation and Nuxt.js for web apps, not to mention Flutter if the client wants a mobile app to go with such products.

[@wasimkabir4398]

Strapi and Nuxt (or Quasar) please. It'll be a great help. Thanks for these crash courses.

[@xurussell1537]

i'm your big fan from china. If possible, can u post some videos other than technology，like "a freelance day" or "family vlog". I'm a coder and i also have a son with autistic. Sometimes I feel so depress and frustrated, and dont know how to move along. konwing that someone on earth has the same situation like me ,and that one happens to be my mentor, gives me some confort.Thank you very much Brad

[@cheynesaccount]

Thank you my dude. Been having trouble with the docs, this is very clear.

[@Hildreim]

Thank you very much! I was wondering, can you make if possible some videos about websites architectures? How to organise our project and all, it would be awesome ! Thank you for all your hard work you are really the best teacher

[@shalomberkohn4581]

😍 Thank You, Your videos are liberating!

[@dalestewart]

Excellent introduction to Strapi.js crash course. Thanks

[@rubialalom]

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much. 🙏🙏

[@santosokwadi]

Man you should open up a university or college of IT of your own. I trust it will succeed. Great content Thanks as always.

[@mohammedelamin1563]

God only know, I'm searching about this 😍😍

[@TraversyMedia]

It's awesome

[@alexeilevinzon2916]

Thanks Brad, no words! great as always, glad to learn new technologies :)

[@ThomasPoth]

Guy, you made my day 👍😎😎 This stuff is so awesome i can't tell. It's so damn easy to get started in minutes. Thx

[@amirmojarrad3230]

So glad to have found Strapi. Tired of working with legacy systems like Drupal.

[@axaysushir]

That's very useful for make auth api, I am looking for CMS system in JS and that's it. Very good video. This is like Magento in PHP.

[@eldinedy6837]

Do you have full tutorial about strapi and would be great mongodb(mongoose), udemy or something similar?

[@jagdishshetty4782]

Awesome tutorial as always !!!

[@mefaba5363]

We definitely need a full stack react+strapi, great video!

[@vkray]

Why? Go to the strapi site and check their tutorial.

[@vlmo]

Hi, Brad! Could you make a video how do you manage the process from the ideia of a project, writing it down what you have to do and developing it? Thanks!

[@thefreshies]

I recently started using strapi. Love it. Though I’m having trouble with nested graphql queries.

[@TraversyMedia]

I have not used it with graphql yet.

[@thefreshies]

Traversy Media I think it will require a custom resolver but I’m still wrapping my head around that.

[@BBI-Brandboost]

Some more great technical insight. Keep up the good work.

[@ThubaMamba]

Thanks for the crash course Brad.

[@nym4960]

Damn, I had no idea this existed. I always wanted to make my own CMS. Thanks Traversy!

[@leonvanrijswijk8409]

Cool. First time I heared about Strapi. Would be great if you would make a course on this. Postman for the frontend would be fine. That way you keep it independent of the frontend and really focus on Strapi.

[@daheck81]

I just finished building a Strapi project and now you're uploading this. Oof haha

[@codezero6023]

Very good Brad! I like it a lot better than REST Hapi. I will have look into Typescript support since is a big requirement for most of my projects.

[@daheck81]

This IS a rest api

[@speedyyang5614]

This is great, Bro, love your content.

[@likelylogic600]

Great introduction! Thanks so much

[@coding.7.7.78]

Really APPRECIATE your work sir !!!

[@inflames9587]

awesome channel

[@uollaw9499]

Thanks brad we will be waitin for full stack app with strapi and react

[@dotamovie1033]

this is really good. please proceed to vue or react. Thank you sir.

[@rosselliot8971]

I think I requested this a while back. If so, thanks. If not, thanks.

[@rick7242]

Very good video and what amazing framework man (I meam CMS)

[@skverskk]

Looks very promising, or sure.I;ve been playing around with AWS Amplify Cognito, recently. Strapi seems to have most of the same features, like email registration verification, password reset, forgot password, jet. etc.

[@benion28]

Thanks Brad for your nice works. Still hoping to see you integrate strapi with a frontend