How to Build a Customer and Partner Portal with Strapi and Next.js

In the tutorial "How to Build a Customer and Partner Portal with Strapi and Next.js," Paul Bratslavsky outlines a method for creating a unified portal application using Strapi 5 as a headless CMS and Next.js 16 for handling authentication and routing. This approach allows a single codebase to cater to different user roles, such as customers and partners, by employing role-based content separation. Strapi 5 manages content modeling, permissions, and API delivery while Next.js facilitates role-gated rendering with JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication. The tutorial emphasizes setting up customized Collection Types for different data, configuring roles and permissions, and implementing policies to restrict data access. It also details how to build a Next.js frontend for role-based routing and how to deploy the application using platforms like Strapi Cloud or Vercel. The integration of Strapi's content-type builder, user permissions plugin, and event-driven notifications through webhooks ensures the portal's scalability and maintainability.