Content-Type Builder automation / programmatically

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Is it possible to automate or programmatically create content-types without using the UI Builder?

Two options that come to mind

  1. Through the API
  2. Manually place the code files and run CREATE TABLES it would have anyway

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Maybe by just placing the files that would have been generated, the database side can sync on its own?

3

yup! apparently just placing the content-type files in place, Strapi sync all the things!

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#!/bin/bash

# cleanup from previous runs
rm -rf repro/
docker rm -f repro-mysql

# start mysql
docker run -d \
  -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=strapi \
  -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=strapi \
  -e MYSQL_USER=strapi \
  -e MYSQL_DATABASE=strapi \
  -p 3306:3306 \
  --name repro-mysql \
  mysql:8.3.0

# create app at previos version
npx create-strapi-app@5.0.0-beta.2 repro --typescript --quickstart --no-run

# move to new app for doing work
cd repro

# setup strapi for mysql
yarn add mysql2
export DATABASE_CLIENT=mysql

# copy existing types into place
cp -r my-content-types/* src/api/

# start app first time
yarn develop
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Is this a runtime requirement

6

Or it’s compile time?

7

You can kinda replace schema.json files with js or ts

8

And feed some kind of config in there

9

But it doesn’t sounds like it’s going to fit your case

10

more of an experimentation / declarative as code → reproducibility thing. I generally dislike designing data structures in a UI with clicking, far easier to look at a single file(s) with the whole definition there

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It’s the devops in me :]

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Well you can edit schema.jsons directly