Plugins

Strapi offers a functional ecosystem to install and even develop plugins. Plugins are even part of the standard Admin Panel functionality (permissions, content-manager). We make only limited use of plugins mainly for email purposes:

1. Mailgun: To enable Strapi to send out emails in general, a mail plugin has to be configured from a number of options. We decided for the Mailgun service here.

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   There is also section for Email configuration in the Admin Panel settings itself. Sending out test emails is possible there as well.

2. Email Designer 5: The Email Designer 5 allows the creation of complex Email templates using data from the backend through an easy to use Editor. The frontend of Email Designer 5 can be reached through the Admin Panel Menu (envelope icon). Email templates are identified by a templateReferenceId, and through this can be easily integrated using sendTemplatedEmail:

   strapi.plugin('email-designer-5').service('email').sendTemplatedEmail(
     {
       to: recipient,
       attachment: attachment
     },
     {
       templateReferenceId: 103,
     },
     {
       name: nextRun[0].hare.alias,
       password: haresPwd,
       link: 'https://klharriettes.org/signinsheet'
     }
   );

3. strapi-v5-plugin-populate-deep: The plugin allows to deeply populate data in Strapi queries with a new parameter pLevel as Strapi allows only the population of three levels deep as a standard. This parameter specifies the depth of population for API responses. The plugin is rarely used throughout the frontend/backend functionality (the content components of the hashers-page are so deeply nested that it has to be used to get down to pLevel=4).