Strapi Starter Next Corporate Site

Next starter for creating a corporate site with Strapi.

This starter is designed for flexibility. Using it, you'll be able to manage your website content entirely in Strapi, and get a Next app automatically generated. Marketing teams will be able to create pages and design their layout without help from developers.

This starter features:

Pages creation within Strapi, no code necessary
Fully flexible page structure: design the pages you want using UI Sections
8 UI Sections out of the box: Hero, RichText, LargeVideo, Testimonials, Pricing, BottomActions, FeatureRows, FeatureColumns
Easy to theme with Tailwind
Static site generation with Next
An integrated Preview Mode, to view your pages on a private URL before publishing them

Getting started

The easiest way to try this starter is to run it locally on your computer.

First, you'll need to create your own copy of this starter. You can do so by clicking the "Use this template" button on GitHub, and filling the form.

Backend

Make sure you're in the backend directory:

cd backend

Install dependencies and run your server:

# Using yarn
yarn install
yarn develop

# Using npm
npm install
npm run develop

The first time you start your project, sample seed data will be imported.

Frontend

Make sure you're in the frontend directory:

cd frontend

Install dependencies and start the Next.js server:

# Using yarn
yarn install
yarn develop

# Using npm
npm install
npm run develop

The Next.js server will run here => http://localhost:3000

Customize your corporate site

To edit this website, you'll need to run both the frontend and the backend in your development environment.

Adding Sections

We have built sections for you, but you will likely want to add more to fit your needs. Follow these steps:

Create a new component in Strapi in the "sections" category
In the Content-Types Builder, open the Pages collection and check your new section on the contentSections field.
Create a React component that takes a data prop in /frontend/components/sections
To link your Strapi section to this React component, open /frontend/components/sections.js, and add an entry to the sectionComponents object.

Custom theme

We use Tailwind CSS for styling. To modify your page's look, you can edit the theme in /front/tailwind.config.js. Read the Tailwind docs to view all the changes you can make. For example, you can change the primary color like this:

const { colors } = require(`tailwindcss/defaultTheme`);

module.exports = {
  theme: {
    extend: {
      colors: {
        primary: colors.green,
      },
    },
  },
};

Deploying to production

You will need to deploy the frontend and backend projects separately. Here are the docs to deploy each one:

Don't forget to set up your environment variables on your production apps.

Here are the required ones for the frontend:

NEXT_PUBLIC_STRAPI_API_URL: URL of your Strapi backend, without trailing slash
PREVIEW_SECRET: a random string used to protect your preview pages

And for the backend:

FRONTEND_URL: URL of your frontend, without trailing slash
FRONTEND_PREVIEW_SECRET: token of Next.js preview mode defined on the frontend

Have fun using this starter!

shibley/next