Joomla! vs Daptin: What are the differences?
Joomla!: A content management system helping both novice users and expert developers to create powerful websites and applications. Joomla is a simple and powerful web server application and it requires a server with PHP and either MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server to run it; Daptin: GraphQL/JSON-API Headless CMS. It is a headless CMS server which servers data from MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQLite over JSONAPI.org and GraphQL. With Daptin you can design your data model and have a production ready JSON API online in minutes.
Joomla! and Daptin can be primarily classified as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.
Some of the features offered by Joomla! are:
- User Management
- Media Manager
- Language Manager
On the other hand, Daptin provides the following key features:
- Database backed persistent data
- CRUD JSON API/GraphQL
- User and group management and access control
Joomla! is an open source tool with 3.45K GitHub stars and 2.99K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Joomla!'s open source repository on GitHub.