🚀 Getting started with Strapi

Strapi comes with a full featured Command Line Interface (CLI) which lets you scaffold and manage your project in seconds.

develop

Start your Strapi application with autoReload enabled. Learn more

npm run develop
# or
yarn develop

start

Start your Strapi application with autoReload disabled. Learn more

npm run start
# or
yarn start

build

Build your admin panel. Learn more

npm run build
# or
yarn build

⚙️ Deployment

Strapi gives you many possible deployment options for your project including Strapi Cloud. Browse the deployment section of the documentation to find the best solution for your use case.

📚 Learn more

  • Resource center - Strapi resource center.
  • Strapi documentation - Official Strapi documentation.
  • Strapi tutorials - List of tutorials made by the core team and the community.
  • Strapi blog - Official Strapi blog containing articles made by the Strapi team and the community.
  • Changelog - Find out about the Strapi product updates, new features and general improvements.

Feel free to check out the Strapi GitHub repository. Your feedback and contributions are welcome!

✨ Community

  • Discord - Come chat with the Strapi community including the core team.
  • Forum - Place to discuss, ask questions and find answers, show your Strapi project and get feedback or just talk with other Community members.
  • Awesome Strapi - A curated list of awesome things related to Strapi.

🤫 Psst! Strapi is hiring.

Environment Variables

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your .env file
NODE_ENV The environment in which the application is running.

DATABASE_CLIENT The database client to use.

DATABASE_HOST The database host.

DATABASE_PORT The database port.

DATABASE_NAME The database name.

DATABASE_USERNAME The database username.

DATABASE_PASSWORD The database password.

JWT_SECRET The secret used to sign the JWT for the Users-Permissions plugin.

ADMIN_JWT_SECRET The secret used to sign the JWT for the Admin panel.

APP_KEYS The secret keys used to sign the session cookies.`

Run Locally

Clone the project

  git clone https://link-to-project

Go to the project directory

  cd my-project

Install dependencies

npm install

Start the server

npm run start

FAQ

ER_NOT_SUPPORTED_AUTH_MODE: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client

Run this command on your client database:

ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password';
flush privileges;

If still not working run this:

ALTER USER 'root' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password';
flush privileges;

as root your username and password your current password