Strapi

In production on Azure the admin panel sometimes shows an endless loading spinner after a page refresh, with no console errors.

Affects: Teams deploying Strapi 5 to Azure

After upgrading, the admin panel shows an API error and the browser tries to call localhost, which breaks deployments on the public internet.

Affects: Teams running Strapi in Docker behind a public host

During a transfer the websocket connection may die from latency or a network outage and the transfer stalls and fails. Support could not reproduce it.

A developer who used Strapi in production found it much less stable than it looks, with many bugs and a messy design, and says they will not use it again.

Affects: Developer who ran Strapi in production

Running the build on Strapi 5.17 fails in the TypeScript compile step with a missing type definition for minimatch.

Affects: TypeScript users building in CI or Docker

Since a depth restriction was added, developers cannot nest components more than two levels, which blocks designs like hero blocks with cards and buttons.

Affects: Developers building websites with Strapi

The bundled mysql driver does not support the default MySQL 8 authentication method, so connections to some hosted databases are refused.

Affects: Users on hosted MySQL 8 databases

A team running Strapi with a static site generator missed a way to localize content. They had to hack around the limitation because no roadmap for it was visible.

Affects: Team using Strapi with a static site generator in production

A user can't limit or filter items inside repeatable components in GraphQL, unlike one-to-many relations, and asks for deep filtering on component fields.

All relations are included by default, creating complex queries and larger responses. The user suggests opt-in relation inclusion through a query parameter.

A maintainer workaround explains that secure sessions behind a reverse proxy require enabling the Koa proxy setting and forwarding the right headers, which is not set up by default.

Affects: Teams running Strapi behind a reverse proxy

The content-type builder does not offer a required option for relations. Adding required to the schema file by hand makes validation work.

A freelance developer found using CMSes such as Strapi painful and replaced them with custom backends to avoid depending on maintainers' direction.

Affects: Freelance web developer working with clients

After moving from WordPress to Prismic and then to Strapi hoping for better extensibility and latency, the team found Strapi miserable and wishes they had stayed on Prismic.

Affects: Team running a headless CMS behind a Laravel site

A user who liked Strapi v3 says v4 introduced too many big showstoppers and now recommends Directus as more mature.

Affects: Long-time Strapi v3 user

While evaluating CMSes for an app with 30+ content types, a developer judged the Strapi admin UX to require too much clicking and chose Payload instead.

Affects: Team building an app and website with 30+ content types