Strapi gives developers a customizable admin UIUser interface — the parts of software people see and interact with. and auto-generated RESTRepresentational State Transfer — a style for web APIs using HTTP methods and resource URLs./GraphQL APIs for any content type — self-hosted unlike Contentful. It became the default open-source headless CMSContent management system — software for building and publishing websites without hand-writing every page. for JavaScript teams building Next.js and ReactA JavaScript library for building UIs — component trees and declarative rendering for the web. sites.

Strapi brought open-source, self-hosted headless CMSContent management system — software for building and publishing websites without hand-writing every page. to the Node.jsA JavaScript runtime built on V8 — event-driven I/O for servers, CLIs, and tooling. ecosystem.

It proved teams could own their content APIApplication programming interface — a defined way for programs to talk to each other or to a service. without SaaSSoftware as a Service — applications delivered over the internet on a subscription basis. lock-in.