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.