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Joomla! vs Strapi: What are the differences?
Developers describe Joomla! as "A content management system helping both novice users and expert developers to create powerful websites and applications". 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. 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.
Joomla! and Strapi can be categorized as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.
Joomla! and Strapi are both open source tools. Strapi with 16.4K GitHub stars and 1.87K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Joomla! with 3.31K GitHub stars and 2.9K GitHub forks.
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 Joomla!
- Powerful extension architecture16
- Powerfull CMS6
- Mid-Hight End level CMS5
- Highly customizable4
- Vast repository of free and paid extensions2
- Extensions & Templates2
- Multilingual in the core1
Pros of Strapi
- Free55
- Open source38
- Rapid development26
- Self-hostable26
- API-based cms24
- Headless17
- Real-time17
- Easy setup16
- JSON12
- Large community11
- GraphQL5
- Internationalization4
- Social Auth4
- Media Library2
- Components1
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Cons of Joomla!
Cons of Strapi
- Can be limiting8
- Internationalisation8
- A bit buggy6
- DB Migrations not seemless5