Strapi v5 brings significant changes related to content versioning, API response formats, and the Plugins SDK. This post details our experience with upgrading a specific Strapi setup from v4 to v5. This includes the changes we found easy to upgrade, the aspects we found complicated and the effort it took us to execute the over-all upgrade.

Strapi Admin panel customization can mean various things. This post is specifically about modifying the existing Strapi Admin panel (the UI) behavior. For example - changing how the content manager search or filter works on the UI or changing the Strapi media library UI.

This post details our experience wrt. setting up automated testing of a few of our Strapi APIs. This includes - why we setup the automation testing, for what APIs and how did we go about implementing it.

Because Strapi v4 is a major release with a large number of breaking changes, migrating a Strapi setup from v3 => v4 can be complicated. This post details how we undertook the v3 => v4 migration with a two-fold goal of upgrading without any functional / data regression in the smallest possible downtime window.

With Strapi v4, custom input validations for fields within components cannot be coded within the collection lifecycle hooks. This blog post details why it is so and provides an alternative implementation to overcome this.

Strapi v4's track record with respect to version upgrades has been patchy. This post details such experiences & my attempts to overcome issues to enable more confident Strapi version upgrades.

This post details the implementation specifics to setup Elasticsearch with Strapi. This includes triggering Elasticsearch indexing via Strapi customization and providing a Strapi route endpoint to front the Elasticsearch search. These integrations are detailed through an example blog-post Strapi collection.

Customizing the Strapi upload plugin (beyond modifying it's providers) is complicated. This post details how such complicated customization can be achieved by modifying the Admin UI and server-side code.

Strapi's large number of customization options is one of the reasons behind its popularity. But, given a certain requirement, which of Strapi's customization options would be the most suitable? This post details what Strapi customization option would best suite a certain kind of CMS requirements.

This post details the straightforward customizations as well as complicated modifications with respect to Strapi CMS. The goal of detailing the experience is to help others evaluating Strapi CMS for their CMS requirements.