Bridging the gap between developers and users.
Atlas is a toolkit for developers and a gift to end users. Built as a desktop application on top of Strapi, it provides deep admin panel customization alongside substantial UX improvements that work immediately.
Every developer who has deployed Strapi for a client knows the pattern: you build a powerful backend, then spend weeks walking clients through the admin panel's complexity.
When users open Strapi for the first time, they're met with a sea of nested boxes, fields, and menus. Explaining to your client that this is good, actually ("the content editor is a visual abstraction on top of a relational database ☝️🤓") is never a winning strategy. Strapi's UI is robust but terribly unintuitive, and surprisingly provides very limited customization options.
Strapi shines because everything is done by default. I can create a content type and have a database table, admin panel page, REST API, etc. done in 30 seconds. Under tight deadlines, this is invaluable.
But once you've built your MVP and want to go deeper, Strapi provides no options. This forces an impossible choice: MVP tomorrow and MVP in a year, or MVP in a month and full product in a year? Most client feature requests should require minor adjustments to defaults, not full ejection from Strapi's ecosystem.
Atlas maintains useful default implementations for all Strapi features (with improvements), then opens them up for extension and replacement. You get all the benefits of Strapi without being locked into its default UI/UX.
¹Strapi core plugins must be incrementally enhanced with these features, so coverage is not yet complete.
Atlas maintains Strapi's great developer experience while expanding developer agency:
² With the caveat that some advanced features can't be monkey patched, so an atlas-specific refactor would be necessary to benefit from all features.
Atlas includes utilities to streamline working with Strapi in the IDE. Atlas factory functions provide intellisense on Strapi conventions so you don't need to scurry back to the documentation every two minutes. Additionally, using these will register your plugin/module to the Strapi type registry.
Atlas turns Strapi deployments from high-maintenance client relationships into set-and-forget solutions. You get developer control in the long run, with an interface clients can use independently from day one.
The result: Faster development, happier clients, and scalable projects without future-proofing anxiety.
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