We use Strapi as the content backend behind headless websites and web applications, usually with a Nuxt frontend on top. Editors get a panel they can work in all day. Your frontend gets a clean API. You keep the CMS, the data, and the infrastructure.
Editors who stop filing tickets, developers who stop fighting the API, and a site that got faster along the way.
“Coditive helped us go from 6 to 0.2 seconds load times on our frontend. We collaborate easily through Basecamp and Bitbucket and they react to our task instantly.”
“The ease and clarity of communication between our in-house development team and Coditive is exemplary.”
“Their intelligence, friendliness, and responsiveness are impressive! They're a team of experts on every level.”
Strapi 5 gives your content team independent drafts, a live preview of the real frontend from inside the panel, and markdown paste that turns notes or AI drafts into clean formatted content. We wire all three to your actual site, so publishing stops being a developer task.
Strapi serves content over an API, so your frontend can be statically generated and served from the edge. We run one client site of close to 1,000 pages this way: every page pre-built, none of them waiting on a database at request time.
Strapi is open source and self-hosted. It runs on your Google Cloud, your AWS account, or Strapi Cloud if you prefer managed. No per-seat licensing, no content locked behind a vendor's export button, no surprise pricing change three years in.
Strapi now ships a built-in MCP server, so an AI assistant can connect straight to your CMS with the same permissions as the admin panel. Updating a CTA across hundreds of pages or filling in missing SEO descriptions becomes one request instead of an afternoon.
The content engine: how your data is modeled, extended, deployed, and kept current.
The layer your visitors see, built by the same team that shaped the data behind it.
Three of the setups we run today. Different industries, same pattern: Strapi holds the content, a JavaScript frontend renders it.
For a SaaS company whose marketing site outgrew being a website, we run Strapi on Google Cloud behind a statically generated Nuxt frontend on Vercel. Close to 1,000 pages, assembled from dynamic zones, edited daily by a content team.
We built the content backend behind some of the biggest names in motorsport, where pages reach millions of fans. Editorial content, dynamic sections, and an API that stays calm on race weekend when the traffic arrives at once.
Editorial workflows where several people publish every day: independent drafts so an unfinished rewrite never ships with an unrelated deploy, in-panel preview, and bulk editing through the MCP server for changes that touch every page.
Most of our Strapi work ships alongside a Nuxt frontend we build too, so the content model is designed around the pages it has to render rather than thrown over a wall. As an Official Nuxt Partner, Strapi is what we reach for when a headless project needs a real editorial backend.
Strapi and the frontend under one roof, so there is no coordination tax between a CMS vendor and a frontend vendor.
Comfortable with inherited systems: takeovers, audits, and version upgrades on codebases we did not write.
Node.js is our backend home turf, which is exactly what Strapi is built on when you need to extend it.
White-label and NDA-ready. Several of our largest Strapi builds are ones we cannot put a logo on.
15+ years of client relationships across four continents. The common thread: careful execution, clear communication, and results that show up in their metrics.
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“We are very happy with their great and efficient communication, the high standards of development and project management as well as their eye for details.”
“It's rare to find a frontend team that builds designs with such precision, ensuring every site looks exactly as envisioned. Their commitment to high-quality work is evident in every project. Beyond their technical expertise, they’ve been great communicators, keeping us in the loop and delivering things on time.”
“We are very happy with the results of Coditive work. From project management to execution, it was a great experience.”
“Coditive is a tremendous team. They are exceptional, detail-oriented, proactive and basically get everything I ask done with a minimum of guidance.”
Our partner specialty, and the frontend most of our Strapi backends feed.
Custom APIs, real-time systems, and data pipelines alongside the CMS.
Dashboards, portals, and product interfaces on the same JavaScript stack.
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Przemysław Hernik
CTO
Strapi is an open-source headless CMS built on Node.js. It stores and structures your content and serves it over an API, while a separate frontend renders it. It fits when you want a modern JavaScript frontend, a content model shaped around your business, and full control of the hosting. It is not always the answer: if your team needs a page builder, a plugin ecosystem, and one system for everything, WordPress is usually the better call, and we will say so on the first call.
Yes, and we have done it on a production system of close to 1,000 pages with a content team working in the panel every day. The client got independent drafts, in-panel preview, a plugin list cut by more than half, and a supported Node runtime again. Strapi shared the write-up on their own LinkedIn profile. The parts worth knowing before you start: audit every plugin first, guard against Strapi 5's stricter population behavior with an automated check, and never run the database migration inside a serving container's startup window.
See Strapi's post about our migrationYes. We start with an audit of the content model, plugins, dependencies, and deployment, then give you a straight assessment and a plan before touching production. Inherited codebases, including undocumented ones, are familiar territory for us.
Wherever you want it. We most often run it containerized on Google Cloud with a managed database, but AWS, your own servers, or Strapi Cloud all work. We set it up, document it, and hand over full access. Some clients keep hosting with their own DevOps team from day one.
Usually, yes. Most of our Strapi backends ship with a Nuxt or Vue frontend built by the same team, including preview wiring and deploy hooks so editors can publish and trigger a rebuild themselves. Nuxt is our default and the stack we are an Official Nuxt Partner for, but the headless pattern does not change on the React side, so Next.js and React frontends are fine too. If you already have a frontend, we will build the API around what it needs.
Yes. Some of our largest Strapi work sits behind an NDA and we cannot name the client. We work the same way for agencies and software houses: your brand on the work, our team behind it.
Fixed price for well-defined scopes, time and material for ongoing work and migrations where the surface is hard to pin down upfront. Detailed estimate before we start, payments in USD, EUR, and PLN via bank transfer or Stripe.
Yes. Full source code, deployment instructions, documentation, everything. Strapi itself is open source, so there is nothing proprietary in the stack to lock you in.
Tell us what you want to build, migrate, or rescue. Our team will review the context and get back to you with a clear next step.