Beginners Guide to Strapi Policies and Customizations

The article provides an in-depth tutorial on creating and implementing policies within a Strapi application, which is a headless content management system for building backend applications. It explains the concept of policies, likening them to security checkpoints that ensure requests to the server adhere to predefined rules. The tutorial covers the creation of global and API-specific policies using Strapi's command-line tools, illustrating the process with example codes and configurations. It also introduces the use of Joi for schema validation to ensure that data sent through API requests meet certain criteria. Additionally, the article discusses how to configure error handling within policies to provide more informative feedback when requests fail. Throughout the tutorial, practical examples and step-by-step instructions are provided to guide users in building and testing their own policies, with additional resources for further learning.