Exploring the project structure of a Strapi application

When we ran the strapi-app CLI tool with yarn create strapi-app, the command generated a new blank project for us. Let's spend some time exploring the structure of the project and the packages that were installed for us.

The commands to run Strapi

Out of the box, the package.json file includes four Strapi-related commands that provide aliases for the Strapi CLI:

• Development mode: While developing, we will run the API using the yarn develop command. This is an alias for strapi develop, which runs the Strapi instance in development mode, enabling features such as auto-reload and writing files to the code base when we change options in the admin panel. It also builds the admin panel.
• Production mode: For running in production, we can use yarn start (which is the alias for strapi start). This disables auto-reload and writing files into the code base.
• Build the admin panel: The final command is yarn build...