From the course: The Freelance Stack: Real Project with Next.js and Strapi

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Strapi installation and overview

Strapi installation and overview

So, in the last section, we set everything up for the front end, especially in terms of styling. All of that is now done and ready to be started to be coded up. Now, we do have a second part of this application, if you remember, which is our backend, or rather a headless CMS for which we're going to be using Strapi. Now, in order for us to get that to run, what we're going to be doing here is we're going create a new folder within my surfcam folder. So here you see I'm right now in surfcam frontend, I'm going to go out of that, so that I'm in my surfcam folder, I will be creating now my Strapi folder. Once again, you can easily, or the same thing that, the same thing that went for the Next.js frontend, you can easily use the latest stable version, but if you want to stick exactly with the code that I'm writing, the version that I'm using is 4.13.7 to be 100% exact. And we can just say here that it's going to be surfcamp-strapi. If you run that, it will take a moment, and then it will…

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