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Followers12

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Drupal vs Strapi: What are the differences?

Developers describe Drupal as "Free, Open, Modular CMS written in PHP". 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. On the other hand, Strapi is detailed as "*An open-source Headless-CMS *". It is an open source Node.js Headless CMS to easily build customisable APIs. It lets you manage your content and distribute it anywhere. It allows you to securely and privately serve your database of choice from your hosting and server of choice.

Drupal and Strapi belong to "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" category of the tech stack.

Strapi is an open source tool with 16.4K GitHub stars and 1.87K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Strapi's open source repository on GitHub.

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What is 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.

What is Strapi?

It is an open source Node.js Headless CMS to easily build customisable APIs. It lets you manage your content and distribute it anywhere. It allows you to securely and privately serve your database of choice from your hosting and server of choice.

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Why do developers choose Drupal?

Why do developers choose Strapi?

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Stable, highly functional cms
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Great community
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Easy cms to make websites
33
Highly customizable
18
Digital customer experience delivery platform
9
Really powerful
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What are some alternatives to Drupal and Strapi?

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

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

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.

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

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Reviews of Drupal and Strapi

Naushad Shaikh

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Drupal

I am not a developer, however Drupal provided me with almost all the modules that i needed to create complex, responsive and fast websites with front-end and proper admin interfaces.

Most critical part of Drupal is the compression, caching and other performance details in the core, this makes site perform faster just while we get started.

How developers use Drupal and Strapi

Reactor Digital uses

Drupal

As the app's CMS and CRM.

It is being used in a headless state and is completely decoupled from the frontend; only serving it's content to the AngularJS framework via a RESTful API.