The Complete Strapi Course - with plugins and deployment

Explore the Strapi architecture by examining the generated API, content types with their JSON schemas, and the database tables that power default CRUD operations.

Test api parameters with postman using the params tab to pass key value pairs and sort the response by title in ascending order; explore descending order as well.

Explore how to paginate content via API using page number and page size, and the count option, and adjust the page size to control posts per frontend page.

Perform an authenticated GraphQL query by adding the authorization header, publish the page to unlock data, and retrieve fields like title and id from a single type.

Explore fetching nested components and dynamic zones with GraphQL to assemble a home page, including hero components, calls to action, images, and related posts.

Learn how to perform GraphQL mutations to create, update, publish, and delete posts, including setting timestamps and handling drafts, with intuitive operation names and auto suggestions.

Explore GraphQL operators to control responses by filtering fields, applying content filters (title contains 'stroppy'), sorting, and paginating results, including publication state and locale considerations.

Explore how a client request traverses policies, routes, middleware, controllers, and services in the Strapi core, with content types and models guiding data access and response.

Configure core routes in Strapi by customizing built-in routes or creating custom ones, attach policies and controllers, and manage authorization settings for CRUD endpoints.

Create custom routes in Strapi by exporting a routes array from a dedicated file, specifying the method, path, handler, and optional configuration with default policies.

Explore how to implement global, API, and plugin policies in Strapi, attach them to routes, and use policy context and configuration to enforce user roles and access.

Discover the stroppy object, injected into policies, controllers, and services to enable modularity and code reuse; inspect its contents: admin panel, routes, services, controllers, database, and entity manager.

Explore how controllers orchestrate the request‑response flow by using actions, services, and the strapi dot controller interface to customize or replace core controllers, including examples with API and plugin controllers.

Filter premium posts from public requests by adjusting the find action to return only non-premium content for unauthenticated users; discuss moving logic to services and optimizing data queries.

Explore a second Strapi solution that fetches only non-premium posts via the find many service with a premium filter, then sanitize and transform the response for public and authenticated requests.

Develop a cleaner premium posts retrieval by introducing a dedicated public posts service that adds a premium false filter and delegates to the entity service, keeping controller logic slim.

Add a custom Strapi service to update a post's liked by array, passing post id, user id, and query params, then sanitize and populate the updated post for the response.

Explore the theory of lifecycle hooks in Strapi, showing how functions trigger before or after content operations across admin or custom code, with examples like before create and after create.

Create an author content type with required fields and a one-to-one relation to admin users, link posts to authors, and keep authors in sync with admins using lifecycle hooks.

Automatically create and update an author for every admin user using a programmatic lifecycle hook in Strapi, triggered by admin user creation and updates.

Customize GraphQL CRUD operations in Strapi using high-level configurations, disable shadow CRUD, tune the GraphQL playground and Apollo Server, and apply granular controls over specific operations and content types.

Extend the GraphQL schema and resolvers with an extension function using Nexus and SDL, and add a like post mutation with custom resolvers and policies via the extension service.

Extend the GraphQL plugin with a like post mutation by using an extension function and register hook, returning a post entity response and reusing existing post types.

Learn how to shape a GraphQL response in Strapi using the format service and two entity response to return a properly formatted response with only the requested attributes.

Reorganize your GraphQL extension by extracting the post type definition, custom mutation, and configuration into an external file inside a dedicated post GraphQL folder, wrapping resolvers to pass Strapi object.

Master admin server configurations by changing the access url path from /admin to /dashboards, adjusting host and port, and rebuilding the admin panel for development and deployment.

Configure admin panel translations by renaming files, adding an extensions folder, and updating the configuration to set the Italian locale, switch the user language, and customize labels via i18n files.

Explore how to customize the Strapi admin UI by changing the main color and primary colors, adjusting hover and shadow values, and leveraging theme variables and plugins.

Discover the admin RBAC update in Strapi 4.8, enabling granular permissions and new custom roles for plugins and custom functionalities. These changes broaden plugin permissions, previously limited to enterprise plans.