Sanity is a headless, real-time CMS where the editor is an open source React-based construction kit and the backend is a graph-oriented cloud datastore with a globally distributed CDN. | Strapi is100% JavaScript, extensible, and fully customizable. It enables developers to build projects faster by providing a customizable API out of the box and giving them the freedom to use the their favorite tools. |
Open source editing environment; Hosted & scalable APIs; Rich, precise data model; Graph oriented query language; Global asset and query CDN | Files structure; Controllers; Filters; Models; Attributes; Relations; Many-to-many; One-to-many; One-to-one; One-way; Lifecycle callbacks; Internationalization; Plugin; Plugin styles; Policies; Global policies; Scoped policies; Plugin policies; Public assets; Requests; Responses; Routing; Role-based access control; Services; |
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GitHub Stars 5.9K | GitHub Stars 70.2K |
GitHub Forks 497 | GitHub Forks 9.2K |
Stacks 177 | Stacks 717 |
Followers 298 | Followers 1.3K |
Votes 81 | Votes 277 |
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