In early 2017, Strapi, a company that had recently joined an international incubator in Paris, was making significant strides in its development journey, having achieved 1,000 stars on GitHub and expanded its team to manage increasing workloads. They released alpha.2 and alpha.3 versions, focusing on finalizing their framework layer and enhancing connectors like strapi-mongoose and strapi-bookshelf with simple blueprints logic. Their efforts were also directed toward improving the dashboard and cloud deployment solution, with plans for a beta release outlined in their updated roadmap. Strapi participated in events like ParisJS and ParisAPI, engaging with the JavaScript community to share their API vision. They considered implementing HTTP/2 protocol for better performance in the beta release and sought community input through surveys to define future steps, inviting collaboration via GitHub, email, and Slack.