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    • murgero
      murgero App Dev last edited by girish

      Would be cool to see: https://strapi.io/

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      • girish
        girish Staff last edited by

        Just came across this today - https://github.com/strapi/strapi . Looks pretty neat.

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          plusone-nick @girish last edited by

          @girish DO has a 1 click - ive messed with it a bit as a no code DB. The automatically generated API's are very nice to work with. Somewhat similar to Directus

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          • marcusquinn
            marcusquinn last edited by

            👍 from me. Dupe post tho: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2333/strapi-io

            We're not here for a long time - but we are here for a good time :)
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            • girish
              girish Staff last edited by

              @marcusquinn @murgero Are strapi and directus "competitors" or are they for different use cases ? They both seem to go by headless CMS tagline.

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              • marcusquinn
                marcusquinn last edited by

                Similar but different:

                Directus is more generic and app orientated and general databasing.

                Strapi is more like a backend for Blogs similar to Ghost & Wordpress.

                I'd say they are both leaders in their speciality and have high value and large audiences that I'm sure would appreciate finding them on Cloudron.

                I'm looking forward to working with both of them TBH but Directus particularly for rapid database schema design work.

                We're not here for a long time - but we are here for a good time :)
                Jersey/UK
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                • girish
                  girish Staff last edited by

                  @marcusquinn Thanks for the info. It seems there is a sudden interest in strapi (maybe because they recently raised some $$ 🙂 ).

                  Directus is indeed as you said. It's like a fast SQL database design/prototyping tool. Have to look into strapi after that.

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                  • marcusquinn
                    marcusquinn @girish last edited by

                    @girish Yeah, the whole JAMstack movement is growing. Having these options would make Cloudron a credible alternative to Netlify hosting.

                    I'm sure Directus & Strapi will be popular with devs, the next most popular one being NetlifyCMS. Again, would capture a lot of "{platform name} hosting" searches.

                    We're not here for a long time - but we are here for a good time :)
                    Jersey/UK
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                    Personal & Software Tips: https://marcusquinn.com

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                      msbt App Dev last edited by

                      Is anyone working on that? Just got an inquiry if that's something Cloudron can do 😉

                      If noone is on it, I might give it a shot, but I've never packaged node.js before, probably gonna be a bumpy one.

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                      • girish
                        girish Staff last edited by

                        @msbt For node app, you can look at https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/verdaccio-app . If you can get this going, I will be happy to finish it up.

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                          msbt App Dev last edited by msbt

                          Ok I've got it to work, but there are some things missing, maybe you can take over from here @girish

                          Here's the repo: https://git.cloudron.io/msbt/strapi-app

                          You build it, install it, jump on the terminal, cwd into /app/pkg/cloudron and run yarn build. The build process requires 2GB of RAM, I tried with less and it failed a few times. This step should eventually go into the start.sh, but I was rebuilding a lot, that's why it's still there.

                          After that the adminpanel is available in /admin where you can create your first user and add data.

                          What's not working (from what I can see):

                          • Email (the plugins are installed (nodemailer and such), but something must be wrong with my plugins.js, at some point it complained about a self-signed cert, after that I couldn't get it to work at all)
                          • Installing/uninstalling plugins, that's why all 7 are installed by default now

                          Other than that, tests are missing, but it doesn't look so bad.

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                          • marcusquinn
                            marcusquinn last edited by

                            Their email newsletter update today:


                            Hello 👋

                            Thank you for your interest in Strapi. Here's a bunch of updates about our product and pricing.

                            🎮 New hosted demo

                            For those of you who did not get a chance to try out all the features that Strapi provides out of the box, we now have a brand new and optimized hosted trial experience. Launch a Strapi project with sample data in seconds without having to install anything on your machine!

                            👾 Strapi 3.2 is now available!

                            Last week we announced Strapi 3.2 with the long-awaited feature: Draft & Publish!

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                            In short, it lets you save your content as a draft, edit and publish it at any time. Join our online meetup to see the feature demo and know what other product updates are planned!

                            📚 Starters library and templates

                            We added a new template option to the create-strapi-app CLI. With these templates, you can create new Strapi projects that already have content types and plugins pre-configured for you. Browse the Strapi starters library for corporate sites, portfolio or blogs.

                            📢 Pricing update: introducing the Bronze Plan

                            Strapi Enterprise Bronze Edition is all about giving you easier access to custom roles for a discounted price of $29 monthly.

                            Read through the details in the pricing page.

                            Stay tuned for more news!

                            Cheers,

                            The Strapi team

                            We're not here for a long time - but we are here for a good time :)
                            Jersey/UK
                            Work & Ecommerce Advice: https://brandlight.org
                            Personal & Software Tips: https://marcusquinn.com

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                              edapm @marcusquinn last edited by

                              @marcusquinn @girish Any updates on this?

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                                msbt App Dev @edapm last edited by msbt

                                @edapm I've pushed the latest version which has various updates (.ie. latest base image and such) and basically it works, the only 2 things that make problems are email and the slugify feature from node.js.

                                Here's the repo where you can check it out: https://git.cloudron.io/msbt/strapi-app

                                After you've built and installed it, you have to run /usr/local/bin/gosu cloudron:cloudron yarn build in the terminal to build the adminpanel, this step can be added to the start.sh as well, but I wanted to do it manually for the time being, because it takes quite a while on slower machines. Talking of which: this step requires 2,5GB+ RAM, so make sure your machine has plenty available. After that you can create an admin user.

                                Email:

                                • When I try to use SMTPS, it says error Error: Couldn't send test email: Greeting never received.
                                • When using SMTP: error Error: Couldn't send test email: Mail command failed: 550 Authenticated user strapi.app@example.com cannot send mail as .

                                As for the slugify issue: I followed the tutorial from here to dynamically create slugs for collections, but as soon as I edit the modelname.js in /api/collectionname/models/ and add const slugify = require('slugify');, strapi crashes with Error: Cannot find module 'slugify' even though it's in node_modules and referred to from other places - no idea why, if I build strapi on an empty machine with just a few commands, it works without any issues:

                                apt update
                                curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo bash -
                                apt-get install -y nodejs
                                npm install --global yarn
                                yarn create strapi-app cloudron --quickstart --no-run
                                cd cloudron/
                                yarn add pg slugify strapi-provider-email-smtp
                                yarn strapi install email documentation graphql
                                yarn build
                                yarn develop
                                

                                So if you don't need email or slugs, you're good to go 😄

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                                  msbt App Dev @msbt last edited by

                                  Ok I just realized that strapi already has a built in slug-system, so that solution I was working on was already obsolete (there's a UID field available which can take any other field and slugify it properly). This means the only thing that's missing is email 🤙

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                                  • ?
                                    A Former User last edited by

                                    Cool! I'm curious to see how it stacks up to the node version of Directus. Definitely going to give it a shot.

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                                      msbt App Dev @Guest last edited by

                                      @atrilahiji I tried Directus the other day and couldn't for the life of me figure out how to create a simple repeater for a textfield 😛

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