This example deploys self-hosted version of Strapi. Internally it uses a PostgreSQL database to store the data.

• Strapi
• Postgres
• Upload images - Locally.
  • I don't recommend locally. The reason: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/how-to/store-data/#local-filesystem-ephemeral-files-only
  • I recommend using other providers: https://docs.strapi.io/developer-docs/latest/plugins/upload.html

• Click the Digital Ocean button 👆
• Add the environment variables

• Click the Deploy to Render button 👆

• After your app is deployed, visit the /admin endpoint to create your admin user.
• Digital Ocean App's filesystem is ephemeral which is why any changes to the filesystem are not persisted between deploys. This is why, this example uses Cloudinary for storage.
  • You have just to set up the Cloudinary credentials in config/plugins.js and remove the provider local in the same file.

• Create .env file on the root folder to add the environment variables:
  • APP_KEYS;
  • API_TOKEN_SALT;
  • ADMIN_JWT_SECRET;
  • JWT_SECRET;
  • Tip: https://randomkeygen.com/

• Create the src/admin/app.js to customize the Admin panel;
  • For each change do you have to run yarn build;
  • More info here;

• Local File upload: @strapi/provider-upload-local;
• Cloudinary upload: @strapi/provider-upload-cloudinary;
• Documentation: @strapi/plugin-documentation;
• Flatten API response removing attributes and data: https://market.strapi.io/plugins/strapi-plugin-transformer;