# Project structure

✏️ NOTE

If the Strapi project was created with the starter CLI (opens new window), its structure includes both a frontend and backend folder, where the backend folder has the default structure.

Structure of a project created with the starter CLI 
my-project
├─── frontend # starter folder
├─── backend  # template folder, has the default structure of a project
└─── node_modules

The default structure of a Strapi project created without the starter CLI depends on whether the project was created with vanilla JavaScript or with TypeScript, and looks like the following:

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