We had to develop a fully functional training site in a 3 months-time (including alpha and beta-testing phases), dedicated to the IT department staff members, with a lot of content to produce and expose. Therefore, we wanted to spend as little time as possible to build the site backbone, and using a headless CMS was quickly viewed as a necessity.

Our strategy was to let the people with the technical knowledge decide, that is, our developer teams. After testing the main headless CMS in the market and drafting POCs, the developers fancied Strapi’s ease of use, customization abilities, and interface, so we decided to keep this solution for our new training site. The Node.js codebase was also a plus; our backend is 100% Node.js. We knew it would be a real accelerator and had to consider that. The simple and uncluttered interface favored Strapi since we needed to have all site content contributors use it easily.

Strapi has turned out to be a great choice so far: technical setup was really quick, and in a few days, we could have a drafted site up & run, leveraging Strapi main functionalities. Strapi simple stack (Node.js, MongoDB) made it easy to build CI/CD automation and infrastructure setup in AWS.

Just give it a try! It is simple to install and integrate with your site, so you can quickly see if it feeds your functional needs.