import Intro from '/docs/snippets/breaking-change-page-intro.md'
import MigrationIntro from '/docs/snippets/breaking-change-page-migration-intro.md'

Strapi is a subclass of Container#

In Strapi 5, Strapi is a subclass of Container, allowing you to access container methods directly on the strapi object using strapi.add() and strapi.get() instead of strapi.container.register() and strapi.container.get().

In Strapi 5, Strapi is a subclass of the Container class to make it simpler to access services and unify the service access with one method.

Breaking change description#

In Strapi v4

Container methods are accessed like follows:

strapi.container.register(....)
strapi.container.get(...)

In Strapi 5

Container methods are accessed like follows:

strapi.add(....)
strapi.get(...)

Migration#

Manual procedure#

Ensure you update your method calls to container.