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Directus
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Directus

#71in Platform as a Service
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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 Platform as a Service category of a tech stack.

Directus Pros & Cons

Pros of Directus

  • ✓Open Source
  • ✓API-based CMS
  • ✓Self-hostable
  • ✓Version 9 is Javascript Based
  • ✓Graphql
  • ✓User permissisons
  • ✓User roles
  • ✓Components
  • ✓Data visualizations
  • ✓Extensions

Cons of Directus

  • ✗Php based

Directus Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Directus?

WordPress

WordPress

The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.

Drupal

Drupal

Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.

Joomla!

Joomla!

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.

Adobe Experience Manager

Adobe Experience Manager

It is a Web Content Management System that allows companies to manage their web content (Web pages, digital assets, forms, etc) and also create digital experiences with this content on any platform web, mobile or IoT.

Strapi

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.

Netlify CMS

Netlify CMS

It is built as a single-page React app. You can create custom-styled previews, UI widgets, and editor plugins or add backends to support different Git platform APIs.

Directus Integrations

refine, Supabase are some of the popular tools that integrate with Directus. Here's a list of all 2 tools that integrate with Directus.

refine
refine
Supabase
Supabase

Directus Discussions

Discover why developers choose Directus. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

johnsonblue75
johnsonblue75

Jun 10, 2023

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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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