Strapi is releasing its cloud-hosted version of its popular content management system. With Strapi Cloud, developers don’t have to manage their own servers as the company handles hosting for you. This way, you can focus on the front-end code.
If you’re not familiar with Strapi, the company has developed one of the leading open-source headless CMS. A headless architecture means that the backend operates separately from the frontend.
At its core, Strapi is a CMS with all the usual features that you can expect from a CMS. Content writers connect to an admin interface, write content, upload media files, create pages and more. Everything is stored in a database.
But unlike regular content management systems, Strapi doesn’t generate webpages directly. Instead, content is accessible through a GraphQL or RESTful API. Front-end developers can then use these APIs to fetch content and display it.
This decoupled architecture offers...
