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Challenges with Dato CMS

Despite its strengths, Dato CMS may pose issues, particularly for projects requiring extensive customisation or specific feature sets, as it might lack depth in certain areas compared to other CMS platforms. We've never been huge believers in "drag-and-drop" schema builders because they lack inherent validation and extensibility.

The pricing model, which scales with the required functionality and traffic usage, could be a limitation for startups or smaller businesses. Additionally, the learning curve associated with its API-driven environment might pose challenges to non-developers. Some users may also need additional plugins or custom development to fully meet their needs.

Key Pain Points

  • •Limited customisation options
  • •Feature depth variability
  • •Pricing based on traffic
  • •Can be costly for startups
  • •Steeper learning curve
  • •API knowledge required
  • •Need for additional plugins
  • •Custom development needed
  • •Limited feature set scalability
  • •Non-developer challenges
  • •Potential integration issues
  • •Dependency on third-party tools

Benefits of Strapi

If you’re the kind of team that likes to get your hands dirty with real code instead of fighting a bloated enterprise UI, Strapi will feel like home. It’s open-source, customisable, and developer-centric. You get full access to the codebase, no licensing paywalls, and the freedom to shape your CMS exactly the way you want it.

It is flexible. You can use React, Vue, Angular, mobile apps, and smart displays to push content. And despite being dev-leaning, it still gives you GUI-based drag-and-drop schema generation, which means you can spin up content models fast without digging into JSON files every five minutes.

Key advantages

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Node.js driven architecture

Built on Node.js, Strapi plugs straight into the modern JavaScript ecosystem. If your team already lives in JS-land, Strapi fits right in.

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Seamless web technology integration

Pick your poison React, Vue, or Angular. Strapi plays nicely with all of them, making it easy to ship content.

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Highly modular approach

Every part of Strapi is built like Lego. Add what you need, remove what you don’t, and customise endlessly. It’s great if you love building your CMS exactly your way instead of wrestling with rigid templates.

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RESTful API flexibility

Out of the box, Strapi generates clean REST APIs that are easy to consume, easy to extend, and easy to customise. Ideal for multi-channel content delivery without rewriting half your backend.

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Supports GraphQL APIs

With its GraphQL plugin, you get structured queries, reduced over-fetching, and a nicer developer experience with zero hacking required.

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Flexible content management

Strapi lets you model content however you want, from simple pages to complex, relational structures. Combined with a drag-and-drop schema builder, it gives teams full control without feeling boxed in.

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