Why developers like Directus

What is Directus?

Let's say you're planning on managing content for a website, native app, and widget. Instead of using a CMS that's baked into the website client, it makes more sense to decouple your content entirely and access it through an API or SDK. That's a headless CMS. That's Directus.

Directus is a tool in the Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS category of a tech stack.

Directus is an open source tool with 28.4K GitHub stars and 4K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Directus's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Directus?

Companies

19 companies reportedly use Directus in their tech stacks, including Labs, QualityMinds GmbH, and Tenten.

Labs

QualityMinds GmbH

Tenten

Leafly

Localazy

mutor GmbH

Tech I Used Over ...

Code From Berlin

Cherry.tv

Developers

134 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Directus.

General

My Stack

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My Stack

Directus Integrations

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Pros of Directus

Open Source

API-based CMS

Self-hostable

Version 9 is Javascript Based

Graphql

Data visualizations

Flows

User permissisons

User roles

Components

Modular

Responsiveness

Useful API

Metrics

Decisions about Directus

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Directus in their tech stack.

johnsonblue75

Jun 10, 2023 | 6 upvotes · 242.3K views

Needs advice

Contentful

Directus

and

Strapi

Hi, I went through a comprehensive analysis - of headless/api content management systems - essentially to store content "bits" and publish them where needed (website, 3rd party sites, social media, etc.). I had considered many other solutions but ultimately chose Directus. I believe that was a good choice.

I had strongly considered Contentful, Strapi, Sanity, and hygraph. Hygraph came in #2 and contentful #3.

Ultimately I liked directus for:

(1) time in business

(2) open source

(3) integration with n8n and Pipedream

(4) pricing

(5) extensibility

Thoughts? Was this a good choice? We have many WordPress sites we're not (at least now) looking to replace with Directus, but instead to push to.

I'd love some feedback.

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Directus Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Directus?

Contentful

With Contentful, you can bring your content anywhere using our APIs, completely customize your content structure all while using your preferred programming languages and frameworks.

Strapi

Strapi is100% JavaScript, extensible, and fully customizable. It enables developers to build projects faster by providing a customizable API out of the box and giving them the freedom to use the their favorite tools.

Cockpit

An API-driven CMS without forcing you to make compromises in how you implement your site. The CMS for developers. Manage content like collections, regions, forms and galleries which you can reuse anywhere on your website.

Grav

It is a free, open-source and self-hosted content management system (CMS) based on the PHP programming language and Symfony web application framework. It uses a flat file database for both backend and frontend. It is more widely used, and growing at a faster rate, than other leading flat-file CMS competitors.

Ghost

Ghost is a platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing. It's beautifully designed, completely customisable and completely Open Source. Ghost allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do.

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