Content-Type is non editable : Strapi complains of autoRestart plugin to be enabled

[chit786]

I have tried the setup and managed to finally setup this CMS. Thank you and kudos for the detailed article.

I am facing one issue, where i am not able to add content-type via strapi UI. Strapi docs says need to start server in dev mode, could you suggest what are available ways to make this work in serverless setup.
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Cheers!

[Zn4rK]

In a serverless environment, you don't really have any write access (except for a temporary storage). And it doesn't really make sense to dynamically add content types to a server that's hosted live...

[lemoncrafter]

Hello! This a great article, I'm about to try it myslef.
About what @chit786 mentions, could it be possible to start the server in dev mode locally, add your types and then update the cloudformation stack redeploying the package via serverless deploy?

[Zn4rK]

That's the preferred way to do it with Strapi. I actually wrote a webpack configuration that gives you a neat and optimized bundle to run serverless, but the cold starts wasn't doing it for me, so I gave up on running Strapi serverless.

Just the bootstrapping process takes about ~1 second. I did manage to get it down to roughly 400ms on a cold start, but I eventually moved to ECS Fargate.

Just FYI, It's easier to do serverless strapi with the "new" container support: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-container-image-support/

[lemoncrafter]

I belive 1 second is quite fine for my use case, and I am planning to go with RDS serverless anyway so I will have much more warmup time there.
Thanks for your advice, I will try that way too.

[Zn4rK]

FYI: Aurora RDS Data API worked quite good with Strapi. It was a bother to get it working though, since the bookshelf provider hard codes a few things.

Regular RDS will probably work, but make sure you configure the pool to be the minimum amount, otherwise tarn.jss default will take 10 connections. You'll also run in to a few process.exit() which will terminate your container, and a new will spawn, and take up 10 more connections.

The route you are about to embark upon is not a fun one! I'll do a write up of my findings of going serverless with Strapi at some point. It's definitely not impossible, but for the project I worked on, it wasn't worth the time.