Bash Commands

Installation

npm i

Development

npm run develop

Hosting

npm run build
npm run start

Database Hosting

• You will need to run MySQL server (this is where the data will be stored)

Note: Never connect the live hosted database on AWS to locally hosted database -- else database will crash and you will have to recreate it.

• Details regarding database have to be put into .env -- by default, MySQL will start database @ 127.0.0.1 + 3306.

Note: After creating database, make sure you create a collection called tanthetaadb in it - then, start strapi.

Editing hardcoded parameters

• ./config/api.js - change default, max & count parameters for apis
• ./config/middleware.js - change data limits
• ./config/plugins.js - change upload limits

Common Problems

1. Strapi stops working due to same field names.

• Never give same name to different fields -- if you did it by mistake, then just go to ./src/api & find your collection name. Under the collection folder, go to content-types directory + edit schema.json. There, just edit the fields with same names -- it will be shown in the console error.

Note: Do not change any other fields except those which are giving errors -- otherwise database will become corrupted.

2. Strapi is giving long table/collection name error.

• By default, Strapi gives long names to components + relations. Then, while making its corresponding tables, Strapi will club those names together & form newer names.

• Now, SQL databases (like MySQL, Postgres, etc.) have a table name limit of 128 characters. Thus, you will have to manually rename those long names.

• To do that, go to ./src/components/shared & find your corresponding collection -- then, only edit collectionName -- nothing else. This will resolve the error.

Note: After renaming, add them changesInCollectionNames.md file for reference to others.