Customization

Strapi includes 2 main components:

• The back-end part of Strapi is a server that receives requests and handles them to return responses that can surface the data you built and saved through the Content-Type Builder and Content Manager. The backend server is described in more details in the Backend Customization introduction. Most of the parts of the backend server can be customized.

• The front-end, user-facing part of Strapi is called the admin panel. The admin panel is the graphical user interface (GUI) that you use to build a data structure, create and manage content, and perform various other actions that can be managed by built-in or 3rd-party plugins. Some parts of the admin panel can be customized.

From a bigger picture, this is how Strapi integrates in a typical, generic setup: Strapi includes 2 parts, a back-end server and an admin panel, and interact with a database (which stores data) and an external, front-end application that displays your data. Both parts of Strapi can be customized to some extent.

Click on any of the following cards to learn more about customization possibilities:

Back-end customization

Customize the backend server (routes, policies, middlewares, controllers, services, and models).

Admin panel customization

Customize the admin panel (logos, themes, menu, translations, and more).

Info

Customizing the database or the external, front-end application are outside of the scope of the present documentation section.

• You can learn more about databases usage with Strapi by reading the installation documentation, which lists supported databases, and the configuration documentation, which describes how to configure a database with your project.
• You can learn more about how external front-end applications can interact with Strapi by reading the Strapi's integration pages.