Why we built our stack on Strapi and Next.js

By Jordan Lee

Aug 11, 2026

When we set out to build a foundation we could reuse across projects, we had two non-negotiables: editors should never need a developer to change content, and developers should never fight the framework to ship fast pages.

Editors first

Strapi gives our content team a clean admin where every page is composed from reusable sections — a hero, a cards grid, an image-and-text block — without touching code.

Developers second (but close behind)

Next.js fetches that content at build time and revalidates incrementally, so the site stays fast without serving stale data.

The best stack is the one your whole team can move quickly on.

That balance is why this combination has become our default starting point.