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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.
10 Years ago I have started to check more about the online sphere and I have decided to make a website. There were a few CMS available at that time like WordPress or Joomla that you can use to have your website. At that point, I have decided to use WordPress as it was the easiest and I am glad I have made a good decision. Now WordPress is the most used CMS. Later I have created also a site about WordPress: https://www.wpdoze.com
Pros of Drupal
- Stable, highly functional cms73
- Great community59
- Easy cms to make websites43
- Highly customizable41
- Digital customer experience delivery platform21
- Really powerful16
- Customizable15
- Flexible10
- Good tool for prototyping10
- Enterprise proven over many years when others failed8
- Open source7
- Each version becomes more intuitive for clients to use7
- Well documented7
- Headless adds even more power/flexibility7
- Lego blocks methodology6
- Caching and performance4
- Powerful3
- Built on Symfony3
- Can build anything3
- Views2
- API-based CMS1
Pros of Strapi
- Free54
- Open source38
- Rapid development26
- Self-hostable26
- API-based cms24
- Real-time17
- Headless17
- Easy setup16
- JSON12
- Large community11
- GraphQL5
- Social Auth4
- Internationalization4
- Media Library2
- Components1
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Cons of Drupal
Cons of Strapi
- Can be limiting8
- Internationalisation8
- A bit buggy6
- DB Migrations not seemless5