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Nitesh Sawant
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Supercharge Your Strapi CMS Setup ⚡

Introduction

In this tutorial, I am going to share few tips which will help a developer ease backend development.

1️⃣ Improve Eslint configuration

By default when we create a project with npx create-strapi-app my-project --quickstart the .eslintrc uses "extends": "eslint:recommended",, which I found does not enforces rules strictly.

Alternative is to use eslint-config-google

Install below packages

 npm i -D eslint eslint-config-google babel-eslint
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Update .eslintrc

{
  "parser": "babel-eslint",
  "extends": ["eslint:recommended", "google"],
  "env": {
    "commonjs": true,
    "es6": true,
    "node": true,
    "browser": false,
    "jest": true
  },
  "parserOptions": {
    "ecmaFeatures": {
      "experimentalObjectRestSpread": true,
      "jsx": false,
      "impliedStrict": true
    },
    "sourceType": "module"
  },
  "globals": {
    "strapi": true
  },
  "rules": {
    "indent": ["error", 2, { "SwitchCase": 1 }],
    "linebreak-style": ["off", "unix"],
    "no-console": "error",
    "quotes": ["error", "single"],
    "semi": ["error", "always"],
    "no-var": "error",
    "eqeqeq": ["error", "always"],
    "object-curly-spacing": "off"
  }
}
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2️⃣ Add Prettier

Install Prettier as Dev dependency

npm i -D prettier
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Create .prettierrc file

{
  "semi": true,
  "trailingComma": "es5",
  "singleQuote": true,
  "printWidth": 70
}
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Create .prettierignore file

copy the content of the file in the link


3️⃣ Enable Unit testing with Jest

Follow the tutorial link in official strapi docs Link

Add jest configuration in package.json

 "scripts":{
    "test": "jest --forceExit --detectOpenHandles",
    "coverage": "jest --coverage --forceExit --detectOpenHandles"
  },
  "jest": {
    "testPathIgnorePatterns": [
      "/node_modules/",
      ".tmp",
      ".cache"
    ],
    "testEnvironment": "node",
    "collectCoverage": false,
    "collectCoverageFrom": [
      "api/**/*.js",
      "config/functions/**/*.js",
      "config/policies/**/*.js",
      "extensions/**/*.js"
    ],
    "coverageThreshold": {
      "global": {
        "branches": 70,
        "functions": 70,
        "lines": 70,
        "statements": 70
      }
    }
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4️⃣ Use Husky to add a pre-commit hook

With husky, we can add pre-commit hooks to check for any linting issues and apply prettier formatting before committing changes to git.

Install Husky

npm i -D husky
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update package.json

"scripts": {
    "eslint-fix": "eslint . --fix",
    "eslint": "eslint .",
    "lint": "prettier --check .",
    "format": "prettier --write .",
  },
  "husky": {
    "hooks": {
      "pre-commit": "lint-staged"
    }
  },
  "lint-staged": {
    "*": [
      "eslint --fix",
      "prettier --write",
      "git add"
    ]
  },
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5️⃣ Add bitbucket build pipeline

Here a build pipeline is used to make sure code passes certain before it can be merged.

Create bitbucket-pipelines.yml and copy below code

#  Template NodeJS build

#  This template allows you to validate your NodeJS code.
#  The workflow allows running tests and code linting on the default branch.

image: node:12.4.0

pipelines:
  default:
    - step:
        name: Code linting
        script:
          - npm install eslint babel-eslint eslint-config-google
          - npx eslint .
        caches:
          - node
  pull-requests:
    "**":
      - step:
          name: Build and Test
          caches:
            - node
          script:
            - npm install
            - npm run coverage
            - pipe: atlassian/slack-notify:1.0.0
              variables:
                WEBHOOK_URL: $WEBHOOK_URL
                MESSAGE: "Pull request build"
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6️⃣ Create server.js

const strapi = require('strapi');

strapi(/* {...} */).start();
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I have created a template repo with all the changes above,it can be accessed at

Strapi CMS Supercharged

A quick description of your strapi application






Please share your tips and tricks that you use to ease development in strapi.

Thanks for reading, I appreciate it! Have a good day.

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