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Goodbye 2019, Hello 2020

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Pierre Burgy

January 9, 2020

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2019-year-in-review

    Happy New Year

    First of all, Happy New Year!

    2019 has been another great year not only for Strapi but also for the ecosystem.

    JAMstack and Headless CMS trends are growing like never before!

    JAMstack and Headless CMS trends

    Over the last 12 months, Strapi grew:

    The numbers speak for themselves. 2019 was super exciting and made Strapi the most advanced open-source, Node.js based, headless CMS!

    Let’s start with a quick recap of the past year.

    2019 achievements 👀

    Community

    The community has been very engaged and more vibrant than ever:

    • 1387 issues closed
    • 726 pull requests merged
    • 168 contributors

    Strapi activity on GitHub

    A HUGE thanks and shout out to all contributors!

    Product

    The product has been our #1 priority. We strongly believe that the best way to make you happy is to give you the most wanted features through a fantastic user experience. That’s why we spend so much time discussing on GitHub issues and analyzing your requests on our roadmap.

    Features

    Lots of new functionalities have been released:

    Adding Repeatable Groups and Dynamic Zones made Strapi the leading open-source Headless CMS and the most flexible one! Thanks to these features, you can configure Strapi to make it ideally suited for your most specific needs required by your personal and professional projects.

    Beta

    Strapi went from Alpha to Beta.

    • 🆙 Seamless version upgrade
    • 💅 Overhaul of the Admin UI build process
    • 💪 Reliable Deployment
    • 🤹‍ Improved stability
    • 🎁 New Core API
    • 🛤 Easier Monorepo setup

    Buffet.js

    We not only released features in the product but also published an entire React components library based on styled-components: Design System.

    That way, you will be able to quickly create your Strapi plugins with a seamless design.

    Tutorials

    Many of you appreciated our tutorials, like Building a Static Blog using Gatsby and Strapi, and asked for more. For these reasons, we published the Tutorials page, which is both a curation of external tutorials and a way to publish more tutorials made by the community.

    Almost ten tutorials have been published since its publication, and many more have been curated from the community. We are always looking for new writers. If you have already written a Strapi tutorial or blog and would like us to feature it on our website and social media, please don't hesitate to create an issue on the Strapi tutorial GitHub repository.

    Fundraising

    Headless is clearly the future of CMS and Strapi has the ambition to become the de-facto solution. To accelerate our growth we've raised $4M from awesome investors.

    This funding boost will help deliver on our vision of making content accessible to any platform while offering the only fully open-source, JavaScript-based, community-powered and 100% customizable Headless CMS, entirely free for developers.

    Team

    I am extremely proud of the team that actually doubled in size this year. We have been very happy to welcome Virginie, Alexandre, Maxime, Maeva, Bayane, Victor, and Julien. It’s all about people!

    Strapi team

    Oh, by the way, we are still hiring!

    2020 🛣

    2019 was great; 2020 is going to be even more exciting! Here are our New Year's resolutions!

    Stable version

    Even though the beta version is much more stable than the Alpha, we know that some of you eagerly await the stable release to use Strapi in production. I'm thrilled to announce that the stable version will be released in the first quarter 🎉.

    Product roadmap

    Our public roadmap is based on the most upvoted requests from the Strapi community.

    Here are the upcoming features for the first quarter:

    Then, we will release the two most wanted enterprise features:

    Documentation

    Regarding advanced usage or customization, documentation is extremely important for developers. Over the past three months, we've added 20 guides. Not only will we continue in this direction but also update its structure so that you can easily find what you are looking for.

    Deploy

    Deploying Strapi can be tricky for front-end developers using low-code/NoCode. To make your life easier we will provide you with "one-click buttons" so you can effortlessly deploy fresh Strapi projects on your favorite cloud provider.

    Branding

    Just teasing, the Strapi website will soon wear a brand new style!

    2019 was great. 2020 is going to be awesome. We're thrilled and humbled to share this journey with you! 😀

    Happy with this news? Please spread the word or add a comment. 📣

    Did we forget anything in our New Year's resolutions? Please let us know, and thank you so much for all these support messages throughout the year! 🚀

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    Pierre Burgy
    Chief Executive Officer

    Pierre created Strapi with Aurélien and Jim back in 2015. He's a strong believer in open-source, remote and people-first organizations. You can also find him regularly windsurfing or mountain-biking!