How to Build a Wedding Vendor Marketplace with Strapi and Next.js

The tutorial provides a comprehensive guide to building a wedding vendor marketplace using Strapi as a headless CMS and Next.js for the frontend. It outlines the process of creating a vendor directory that includes features such as category filtering, city-based search, vendor profile pages with portfolio galleries, and authenticated reviews using JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication. The tutorial details the setup of the backend with Strapi 5 and the frontend with Next.js 16, explaining content modeling with Vendor, Category, and Review Content-Types, as well as handling media fields and user-generated content. It also covers deploying the backend to Strapi Cloud and the frontend to Vercel, emphasizes the importance of configuring roles and permissions, and suggests extensions like Stripe Connect for payments and internationalization for broader market reach. Throughout the guide, Strapi's role in managing the data layer and access control is highlighted, demonstrating how it facilitates the development of a complex application without the need for a custom backend.