Strapi landing page, quick start instructions
Brett
I used Strapi a couple of years ago and I love it, so thank you. I recently wanted to spin something up, went to your website, and was like oh yea I'll copy this npx quickstart command, naturally. Problem is, I had been using nvm, I think node 16 at the time, so it installed Strapi 3. There of course were a lot of npm deprecation warnings.. etc. It took me almost an hour to realize I needed to uninstall version 3, switch my node/npm version and reinstall/run the quickstart for Strapi i 4.
I'm reporting this not to complain, but to bring attention to the user experience for other developers, especially newer developers unfamiliar with managing node/npm versions, etc. I was completely unaware of the unsupported version 3 changes until I dug into it and realized the problem. Perhaps there is a way to communicate this on the homepage, or somewhere in an FAQ. Just a heads up, thank you.
Pierre Wizla
Thank you for the feedback, Brett!
I'm Pierre, Lead Technical Writer at Strapi. To understand your issue, does this mean that if you use node v16 and run
npx create-strapi-app@latest my-project
(notice the @latest
flag) it will install Strapi v3?