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Alternatives to Drupal

Joomla!, WordPress, Django, ProcessWire, and Typo3 are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Drupal.
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What is Drupal and what are its top alternatives?

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

Top Alternatives to Drupal

  • 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. ...

  • 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. ...

  • Django
    Django

    Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. ...

  • ProcessWire
    ProcessWire

    ProcessWire is an open source content management system (CMS) and web application framework aimed at the needs of designers, developers and their clients. ProcessWire gives you more control over your fields, templates and markup than other platforms, and provides a powerful template system that works the way you do ...

  • Typo3
    Typo3

    It is a free and open-source Web content management system written in PHP. It can run on several web servers, such as Apache or IIS, on top of many operating systems, among them Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, macOS and OS/2. ...

  • Laravel
    Laravel

    It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching. ...

  • AEM
    AEM

    It is a web-based client-server system for building, managing and deploying commercial websites and related services. It combines a number of infrastructure-level and application-level functions into a single integrated package. ...

  • Magento
    Magento

    Magento Community Edition is perfect if you’re a developer who wants to build your own solution with flexible eCommerce technology. You can modify the core code and add a wide variety of features and functionality. ...

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    Vast repository of free and paid extensions
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    Extensions & Templates
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    Multilingual in the core
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    Depleting dev community

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    Easy to manage
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    Plugins & themes
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    Non-tech colleagues can update website content
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    Really powerful
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    Rapid website development
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    Best documentation
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    Codex
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    Product feature set
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    Custom/internal social network
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    Open source
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    Great for all types of websites
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    Huge install and user base
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    Open Source Community
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    Most websites make use of it
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    Best
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    Perfect example of user collaboration
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    It's simple and easy to use by any novice
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    I like it like I like a kick in the groin
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    API-based CMS
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    Community
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Dale Ross
Independent Contractor at Self Employed · | 22 upvotes · 1.4M views

I've heard that I have the ability to write well, at times. When it flows, it flows. I decided to start blogging in 2013 on Blogger. I started a company and joined BizPark with the Microsoft Azure allotment. I created a WordPress blog and did a migration at some point. A lot happened in the time after that migration but I stopped coding and changed cities during tumultuous times that taught me many lessons concerning mental health and productivity. I eventually graduated from BizSpark and outgrew the credit allotment. That killed the WordPress blog.

I blogged about writing again on the existing Blogger blog but it didn't feel right. I looked at a few options where I wouldn't have to worry about hosting cost indefinitely and Jekyll stood out with GitHub Pages. The Importer was fairly straightforward for the existing blog posts.

Todo * Set up redirects for all posts on blogger. The URI format is different so a complete redirect wouldn't work. Although, there may be something in Jekyll that could manage the redirects. I did notice the old URLs were stored in the front matter. I'm working on a command-line Ruby gem for the current plan. * I did find some of the lost WordPress posts on archive.org that I downloaded with the waybackmachinedownloader. I think I might write an importer for that. * I still have a few Disqus comment threads to map

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Siddhant Sharma
Tech Connoisseur at Channelize.io · | 12 upvotes · 1.1M views

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Back in the days, we started looking for a date on different matrimonial websites as there were no Dating Applications. We used to create different profiles. It all changed in 2012 when Tinder, an Online Dating application came into India Market.

Tinder allowed us to communicate with our potential soul mates. That too without paying any extra money. I too got 4-6 matches in 6 years. It changed the life of many Millennials. Tinder created a revolution of its own. P.S. - I still don't have a date :(

Posting my first article. Please have a look and do give feedback.

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Django

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    Easy to learn
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    Mvc
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    Beautiful code
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    Elegant
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    Free
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    Great packages
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    Great libraries
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    Restful
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    Powerful
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    Comes with auth and crud admin panel
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    Great documentation
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    Great for web
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    Python
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    Great orm
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    Great for api
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    All included
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    Fast
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    Web Apps
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    Clean
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    Easy setup
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    Used by top startups
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    Sexy
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    ORM
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    Convention over configuration
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    The Django community
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    Allows for very rapid development with great libraries
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    Great MVC and templating engine
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    King of backend world
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    Full stack
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    Batteries included
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    Its elegant and practical
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    Very quick to get something up and running
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    Cross-Platform
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    Have not found anything that it can't do
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    Fast prototyping
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    Mvt
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    Zero code burden to change databases
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    Easy to develop end to end AI Models
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    Easy Structure , useful inbuilt library
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    Easy to change database manager
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    Great peformance
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    Many libraries
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    Python community
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    Modular
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    Easy
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    Map
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    Easy to use
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    Just the right level of abstraction
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    Scaffold
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    Full-Text Search
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    Scalable
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    Node js
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    Rails
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    Underpowered templating
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    Autoreload restarts whole server
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    URL dispatcher ignores HTTP method
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    Internal subcomponents coupling
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    Not nodejs
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    Configuration hell
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    Admin
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    Not as clean and nice documentation like Laravel
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    Python
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    Not typed
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    Bloated admin panel included
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    Overwhelming folder structure
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    InEffective Multithreading
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Dmitry Mukhin
Engineer at Uploadcare · | 25 upvotes · 2.2M views

Simple controls over complex technologies, as we put it, wouldn't be possible without neat UIs for our user areas including start page, dashboard, settings, and docs.

Initially, there was Django. Back in 2011, considering our Python-centric approach, that was the best choice. Later, we realized we needed to iterate on our website more quickly. And this led us to detaching Django from our front end. That was when we decided to build an SPA.

For building user interfaces, we're currently using React as it provided the fastest rendering back when we were building our toolkit. It’s worth mentioning Uploadcare is not a front-end-focused SPA: we aren’t running at high levels of complexity. If it were, we’d go with Ember.js.

However, there's a chance we will shift to the faster Preact, with its motto of using as little code as possible, and because it makes more use of browser APIs. One of our future tasks for our front end is to configure our Webpack bundler to split up the code for different site sections. For styles, we use PostCSS along with its plugins such as cssnano which minifies all the code.

All that allows us to provide a great user experience and quickly implement changes where they are needed with as little code as possible.

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    Flexible, powerful, simple
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    Easy to learn and powerful to work with
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    100% custom frontend code
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      Enterprise CMS
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      Great upgrade tools
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      LTS and ELTS
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      Open source
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      Multi language
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      Scalable (raise with your needs)
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        Database migrations & seeds
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        Artisan scaffolding and migrations
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        Great documentation
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        Awesome
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        Awsome, Powerfull, Fast and Rapid
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        Build Apps faster, easier and better
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        Get going quickly straight out of the box. BYOKDM
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        Friendly API
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        Simplistic , easy and faster
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        Super easy and powerful
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        Less dependencies
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        Great customer support
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        Its beautiful to code in
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        Php7
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        Eloquent
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        Composer
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        Laravel Mix
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        Easy
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        Fast and Clarify framework
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        Active Record
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        Speed
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        Laravel casher
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        Ease of use
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      Antonio Sanchez

      Back at the start of 2017, we decided to create a web-based tool for the SEO OnPage analysis of our clients' websites. We had over 2.000 websites to analyze, so we had to perform thousands of requests to get every single page from those websites, process the information and save the big amounts of data somewhere.

      Very soon we realized that the initial chosen script language and database, PHP, Laravel and MySQL, was not going to be able to cope efficiently with such a task.

      By that time, we were doing some experiments for other projects with a language we had recently get to know, Go , so we decided to get a try and code the crawler using it. It was fantastic, we could process much more data with way less CPU power and in less time. By using the concurrency abilites that the language has to offers, we could also do more Http requests in less time.

      Unfortunately, I have no comparison numbers to show about the performance differences between Go and PHP since the difference was so clear from the beginning and that we didn't feel the need to do further comparison tests nor document it. We just switched fully to Go.

      There was still a problem: despite the big amount of Data we were generating, MySQL was performing very well, but as we were adding more and more features to the software and with those features more and more different type of data to save, it was a nightmare for the database architects to structure everything correctly on the database, so it was clear what we had to do next: switch to a NoSQL database. So we switched to MongoDB, and it was also fantastic: we were expending almost zero time in thinking how to structure the Database and the performance also seemed to be better, but again, I have no comparison numbers to show due to the lack of time.

      We also decided to switch the website from PHP and Laravel to JavaScript and Node.js and ExpressJS since working with the JSON Data that we were saving now in the Database would be easier.

      As of now, we don't only use the tool intern but we also opened it for everyone to use for free: https://tool-seo.com

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            System is too complex
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          Siddhant Sharma
          Tech Connoisseur at Channelize.io · | 12 upvotes · 1.1M views

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          Back in the days, we started looking for a date on different matrimonial websites as there were no Dating Applications. We used to create different profiles. It all changed in 2012 when Tinder, an Online Dating application came into India Market.

          Tinder allowed us to communicate with our potential soul mates. That too without paying any extra money. I too got 4-6 matches in 6 years. It changed the life of many Millennials. Tinder created a revolution of its own. P.S. - I still don't have a date :(

          Posting my first article. Please have a look and do give feedback.

          Communication InAppChat Dating Matrimonial #messaging

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          I am consulting for a company that wants to move its current CubeCart e-commerce site to another PHP based platform like PrestaShop or Magento. I was interested in alternatives that utilize Node.js as the primary platform. I currently don't know PHP, but I have done full stack dev with Java, Spring, Thymeleaf, etc.. I am just unsure that learning a set of technologies not commonly used makes sense. For example, in PrestaShop, I would need to work with JavaScript better and learn PHP, Twig, and Bootstrap. It seems more cumbersome than a Node JS system, where the language syntax stays the same for the full stack. I am looking for thoughts and advice on the relevance of PHP skillset into the future AND whether the Node based e-commerce open source options can compete with Magento or Prestashop.

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