A Guide to Integrating Strapi with Vendure 

This guide demonstrates how to integrate Strapi with the Vendure headless commerce platform. The integration uses the commerce platform for transactional logic and Strapi for rich content management. This pattern establishes Vendure as the single source of truth for core product data.

Strapi stands out as a fully open-source, self-hosted headless CMS, giving developers complete control over their data and infrastructure.

Its core strength lies in the customisable Content-Type Builder, which allows you to visually define any data structure and automatically generates REST or GraphQL APIs for it.

Why Vendure's Architecture is Ideal for a Strapi Integration

Vendure's architecture is well-suited for this integration because its plugin system allows you to build an event-driven data synchronisation pipeline.

The EventBus can trigger jobs for product updates, while the built-in JobQueue manages background tasks, such as API calls and retries. All of this logic is encapsulated within a decoupled plugin, keeping your codebase maintainable.

Build Your Production-Ready Strapi Integration

Our documentation provides a complete guide to the Strapi service implementation. We also provide a complete, working example of this integration for you to explore, which includes advanced features like batch operations and relationship management.

Vendure Documentation: CMS Integration Plugin Tutorial

What You Will Build

This guide demonstrates how to use Vendure's CMS plugin architecture to build a production-ready Strapi integration. You will learn how to:

• Set up a Strapi project with a custom plugin to house Vendure-specific content types.
• Define Strapi content types for products, variants, and collections using JSON schemas.
• Transform Vendure entities into Strapi's expected format using a dedicated data transformation service.
• Implement a centralized method for making authenticated REST API requests to Strapi.
• Handle complex entity relationships by resolving and linking document IDs between content types.
• Implement the full CRUD synchronisation logic for products, variants, and collections.

Further Reading

• An Introduction to Vendure Plugins
• Using the Job Queue for Background Tasks
• Strapi REST API Documentation