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Craft vs KeystoneJS: What are the differences?
Craft: A CMS built to do one thing and do it well: manage content. Craft is a content management system (CMS) that’s laser-focused on doing one thing really, really well: managing content; KeystoneJS: Node.js CMS and web application platform built on Express and MongoDB. Keystone is the easiest way to build database-driven websites, applications and APIs in Node.js.
Craft and KeystoneJS can be primarily classified as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.
Some of the features offered by Craft are:
- Relations
- Matrix
- Assets
On the other hand, KeystoneJS provides the following key features:
- Express.js and MongoDB
- Dynamic Routes
- Database Fields
"Quick bespoke CMS" is the primary reason why developers consider Craft over the competitors, whereas "Out-of-box tools and basic services" was stated as the key factor in picking KeystoneJS.
KeystoneJS is an open source tool with 14.6K GitHub stars and 2.35K GitHub forks. Here's a link to KeystoneJS's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Craft has a broader approval, being mentioned in 43 company stacks & 9 developers stacks; compared to KeystoneJS, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
Pros of Craft
- Quick bespoke CMS8
- Easy to use CMS7
- Clean slate approach to templating6
- Has it's own StackExcange2
- Clean templating markup (twig)2
- Great support2
- Free licence available for single user account version2
Pros of KeystoneJS
- Out-of-box tools and basic services7
- Large community3
- Great schema-based auto-generated admin interface2
- Great CMS and API platform2
- Great sandbox to play with nodejs2
- Great integrations1
- A great MEAN stack1
- Detail documentations and tutorials1
- Free1
- Rapid development1
- Open source1
- "easy setup", "uses mongodb"1
- Fast on V81
- Similar to wordpress1
- Fast growing community cms framework1
- Great culture1