I’ll introduce two ways to quickly build a Strapi demo environment.

Background: Want to quickly build a Strapi demo environment

I wrote this article so that people who think “Strapi looks good as an open-source headless CMS, but how is it actually?” can quickly build a Strapi demo environment.

How to build a Strapi demo environment

Build demo environment from strapi.io/demo site

You can create one by filling out the form at https://strapi.io/demo under Strapi Hosted Demo and clicking the ACCESS LIVE DEMO button.

A few minutes later, you’ll receive an email that the Strapi demo environment construction is complete, so feel free to use it.

If you don’t use it, the Strapi demo environment will be shut down quickly, so it can’t be used as a demo environment for customers, and I think it’s mainly for trying out the Strapi admin interface yourself.

Build demo environment with npx create-strapi-app

If you’re an engineer, you can build a demo environment locally from the CLI, so let’s follow Installing from CLI | Strapi Documentation.

Create strapi project

npx create-strapi-app my-project --quickstart

Start Strapi app

npm run develop

That’s all from the Gemba, where I researched and practiced methods for setting up a Strapi demo environment.