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Date Published
Author
Victor Coisne
Word count
594
Language
English
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None

Summary

Strapi recently hosted its first online meetup, where the team connected with a diverse and engaged community, receiving numerous questions and feedback. Aurélien Georget, Strapi's co-founder, provided a historical overview of content management systems (CMS) and introduced the differences between traditional, decoupled, and headless CMS. The session highlighted new features like Dynamic Zones, which enable the creation of dynamic pages and complex data structures. The Strapi team also discussed their roadmap, emphasizing upcoming features such as Single Types, UID fields, and a Media Library for their stable release, along with developing admin and permissions features for the Strapi Enterprise edition. They acknowledged the need for improvements in certain libraries and invited community contributions to address these issues. The meetup stressed the importance of community involvement in documentation and content creation, and Victor Coisne, VP of Marketing at Strapi, shared his background and enthusiasm for open-source communities.