mohbadar / YES-Administration-Portal

Youth Empowerment Administration Portal

Strapi application

How to install Strapi with Mongo DB

1: Create a new Strapi project
⚡️ npx create-strapi-app project-name
2: Choose your installation type Custom (manual settings)
3: Choose your main database: MongoDB
4: Database name: my-project
5: Host: 127.0.0.1
6: +srv connection: false
7: Port (It will be ignored if you enable +srv): 27017
8: Username:
9: Password:
10: Authentication database (Maybe "admin" or blank):
11: Enable SSL connection: false

⏳ Testing database connection...
The app has been connected to the database successfully!

🏗  Application generation:
✔ Copy dashboard
✔ Installed dependencies.

👌 Your new application my-project is ready at /Users/Username/Desktop/Projects/my-project.

⚡️ Change directory:
$ cd my-project

⚡️ Start application:
$ strapi develop

Update Strapi version

Start by upgrading all your Strapi packages in your package.json.

• For example upgrading from 3.2.4 to 3.2.5

{
  //...
  "dependencies": {
    "strapi": "3.2.5",
    "strapi-admin": "3.2.5",
    "strapi-connector-bookshelf": "3.2.5",
    "strapi-plugin-content-manager": "3.2.5",
    "strapi-plugin-content-type-builder": "3.2.5",
    "strapi-plugin-email": "3.2.5",
    "strapi-plugin-graphql": "3.2.5",
    "strapi-plugin-upload": "3.2.5",
    "strapi-plugin-users-permissions": "3.2.5",
    "strapi-utils": "3.2.5"
    //...
  }
}

After editing the file run npm install to install the specified version.

• If the operation doesn't work, you should probably remove your package-lock.json. If it still does not work, try again after also removing the folder node_modules.

Rebuild your administration panel

• npm run build -- --clean

Migration guides

• Sometimes Strapi introduces breaking changes that need more than just the previous steps. That is the reason for the Migration guides page.

Start your application

If you have followed the information above, you can start your application with:

• npm run develop

Deployment

Launch the server

• Before running your server in production you need to build your admin panel for production

NODE_ENV=production npm run build

Start application with pm2

create a ./server.js file in root directory as follows:

const strapi = require('strapi');

strapi(/* {...} */).start();

Run the server with the development settings:

sudo pm2 start server.js --name api

Run the server with the production settings.:

NODE_ENV=production pm2 start server.js --name api