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I'm new user of strapi. While reading docs I got confused between content type and component.What is the difference between these two?

Tushar Manohar
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    Welcome to SO! Why did you research? In the first googling I have tried you can find [this tutorial](https://strapi.io/documentation/3.0.0-beta.x/getting-started/quick-start-tutorial.html) when you can understand the differences. – David García Bodego Dec 27 '19 at 05:28
  • Actually firstly I did followed this documentation but, these two elements are used in same way. That's why confused. – Tushar Manohar Dec 27 '19 at 05:48

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A Content Type is a data structure that is used as a collection of specific content.

Could be Articles, Restaurants, Products, etc...

A Component is a data structure (also) that could be used and re-used in many different Content Type.

Example if you have Article and Product Content Types in your app, and you want to manage SEO tags for both of these Content Types you will create a SEO Component and use it in your Article AND Product Content Type

You will not have to create the same SEO data structure in both Content Types.

Jim LAURIE
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Alternatively you can say that a Content Type is a model and a Component is a custom / composite field of one or more models.

Examples for content types could be:

  • Restaurant
  • Article
  • Product

Examples for components could be:

  • Opening hours (e.g. of a restaurant)
  • Meta tags (e.g. of articles or products)
malliaridis
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