Strapi Reference

MySQL Instructions

• CREATE DATABASE strapi;
• CREATE USER 'strapi'@'localhost';
• GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON strapi.* TO 'strapi'@'localhost';
• ALTER USER 'strapi'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'strapi';
• FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
• EXIT;

What to do if you run into the Error: ER_NOT_SUPPORTED_AUTH_MODE: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client error?

In this scenario, you probably did what I did and altered the password with ALTER USER 'strapi'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'strapi'; which is incorrect, insert WITH mysql_native_password in there and you should be good afterwards.

hCaptcha

• In the .env include the secret_key , which you can obtain from hCaptcha via their settings for the account.
• Note: HCAPTCHA=secret_key

i18n

• Ref 1
• Ref 2
• 10/11/2022 - R&D within the i18n and utilizing it on the front-end.
• Issue #73

Login

• The login for Strapi can be either a combination of username + password or email + password. Both username and email are passed through as an entity defined as indentifier. After the login action is sucessful, the API returns two variables:
  • User:
    • This is the user data that contains the following information:
      • username
      • userid
      • email
      • There are other fields of information that are customizable and the schema can be referenced in our API.
  • JWT:
    • The JWT (jwt or token) is an extremely important piece of data that contains the authentication for the user. We are currently reviewing how we should go about storing this token and utilizing it later down the line.

Register

• For registration, we ask the user to submit a generic form that contains the following variables:
  • Username
    • If the username is taken, Strapi does return an error back as a response stating that the username was taken.
  • Email
    • If the email is taken and we disable multi-account on the Strapi backend, then it will return an error back as a response stating that the email was taken.
  • Password
    • Password is encrypted and stored as a hashed variable within the database.
  • Security (as a Captcha via hCaptcha)
    • After the user solves the captcha, an one-time code is generated, which is passed along as a token. If the captcha is wrong or missing, the Strapi returns an error.
• We still need to take the errors that Strapi sends back , parse and then render them client side.

Journal

• Updating to 4.5v and then re-organizing the notes!