strapi-core

Strapi v5 — Production Backend

Built from a real production Strapi v5 codebase. All patterns are battle-tested. Stack: Strapi 5.x · TypeScript · PostgreSQL 16 · Cloudflare R2 · Docker + Traefik

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1. Project Setup

package.json — Core dependencies

{
  "dependencies": {
    "@strapi/strapi": "5.x.x",
    "@strapi/plugin-users-permissions": "5.x.x",
    "@strapi/plugin-documentation": "^5.x.x",
    "@strapi/provider-email-nodemailer": "^5.x.x",
    "strapi-provider-cloudflare-r2": "^0.3.0",
    "pg": "8.8.0",
    "better-sqlite3": "^12.x.x"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@types/node": "^20",
    "@types/react": "^18",
    "@types/react-dom": "^18",
    "typescript": "^5"
  },
  "engines": {
    "node": ">=20.0.0 <=24.x.x",
    "npm": ">=6.0.0"
  }
}

tsconfig.json

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "module": "CommonJS",
    "moduleResolution": "Node",
    "lib": ["ES2020"],
    "target": "ES2019",
    "strict": false,
    "skipLibCheck": true,
    "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,
    "incremental": true,
    "esModuleInterop": true,
    "resolveJsonModule": true,
    "noEmitOnError": true,
    "noImplicitThis": true,
    "outDir": "dist",
    "rootDir": "."
  },
  "include": ["./", "./**/*.ts", "./**/*.js", "src/**/*.json"],
  "exclude": ["node_modules/", "build/", "dist/", ".cache/", ".tmp/", "src/admin/", "**/*.test.*"]
}

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2. Config Files

config/server.ts

export default ({ env }) => {
  const host = env('HOST', '0.0.0.0');
  const port = env.int('PORT', 1337);
  return {
    host,
    port,
    url: env('PUBLIC_URL', `http://localhost:${port}`),
    app: {
      keys: env.array('APP_KEYS'),
    },
  };
};

config/database.ts — PostgreSQL + SQLite fallback

import path from 'path';

export default ({ env }) => {
  const client = env('DATABASE_CLIENT', 'sqlite');

  const connections = {
    postgres: {
      connection: {
        connectionString: env('DATABASE_URL'),
        host: env('DATABASE_HOST', 'localhost'),
        port: env.int('DATABASE_PORT', 5432),
        database: env('DATABASE_NAME', 'strapi'),
        user: env('DATABASE_USERNAME', 'strapi'),
        password: env('DATABASE_PASSWORD', 'strapi'),
        ssl: env.bool('DATABASE_SSL', false) && {
          rejectUnauthorized: env.bool('DATABASE_SSL_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED', true),
        },
        schema: env('DATABASE_SCHEMA', 'public'),
      },
      pool: {
        min: env.int('DATABASE_POOL_MIN', 2),
        max: env.int('DATABASE_POOL_MAX', 10),
      },
    },
    sqlite: {
      connection: {
        filename: path.join(__dirname, '..', '..', env('DATABASE_FILENAME', '.tmp/data.db')),
      },
      useNullAsDefault: true,
    },
  };

  return {
    connection: {
      client,
      ...connections[client],
      acquireConnectionTimeout: env.int('DATABASE_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT', 30000),
    },
  };
};