When comparing Spring-boot vs Strapi, the Slant community recommends Spring-boot for most people. In the question“What are the best backend web frameworks?” Spring-boot is ranked 9th while Strapi is ranked 32nd. The most important reason people chose Spring-boot is:
Boot is just a thin configuration layer over Spring Framework, as such it inherits all the strengths of Spring.
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Pros
Pro Inherits all of Spring's strengths
Boot is just a thin configuration layer over Spring Framework, as such it inherits all the strengths of Spring.
Pro Preconfigured starters
Pro Fast prototyping
Spring boot is built for fast prototyping.
Pro Kick down to Spring
Pro Auto-generate REST APIs
Strapi comes with blueprints that let you create, read, update and delete your data. You also can paginate, sort and filter your results in a matter of seconds with simple but yet specific parameters.
Pro Users, groups and permissions
Manage user settings, login, registration, groups and permissions on the fly. Strapi delivers all those essential features out-of-the-box.
Pro Out-of-the-box administration panel
Easy way to manage your application. This panel allows you to add/edit/delete entries for your APIs, manage your users, groups and permissions. In the future, it will be such as WordPress-like administration panel dedicated to your application.
Cons
Con Lacking in UI development
While actually very good and with a very complete and rich feature set to develop and maintain code on the server side, it still doesn't provide any rich framework for building good user interfaces.