The Complete Strapi™ Course with Plugins and Deployment - Strapi Architecture: An Overview

The video tutorial provides an overview of customizing the Strappy core by following a request-to-response flow. It explains the roles of various modules such as policies, middleware, controllers, services, and models. The tutorial highlights how each module interacts with requests and responses, emphasizing the importance of controllers in executing business logic and services in handling database operations. It also covers the use of web hooks for third-party notifications and concludes with a preview of detailed module discussions in future lectures.

What is the purpose of policies in the request flow?

Explain the role of the controller in the request-response cycle.

How do middleware functions interact with the request and controller?

What are services and how do they support controllers?

Describe the relationship between models and the request-response flow.