Can I use the Query Engine outside of the Strapi environment?

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I have a NextJs project. Can I use the query-engine, from you documentation, to get the data I need on NextJs directly?

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Just found the asnwer. You cannot do it. It’s part of the Strapi system.

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Query engine is essentially just knex so you could use that