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Craft vs Directus: What are the differences?

Developers describe Craft as "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. On the other hand, Directus is detailed as "Free and Open-Source Headless CMS". Let's say you're planning on managing content for a website, native app, and widget. Instead of using a CMS that's baked into the website client, it makes more sense to decouple your content entirely and access it through an API or SDK. That's a headless CMS. That's Directus.

Craft and Directus can be categorized as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.

"Quick bespoke CMS" is the top reason why over 7 developers like Craft, while over 3 developers mention "Open Source" as the leading cause for choosing Directus.

Directus is an open source tool with 4.62K GitHub stars and 461 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Directus's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Craft
Pros of Directus
  • 8
    Quick bespoke CMS
  • 7
    Easy to use CMS
  • 6
    Clean slate approach to templating
  • 2
    Has it's own StackExcange
  • 2
    Clean templating markup (twig)
  • 2
    Great support
  • 2
    Free licence available for single user account version
  • 11
    Open Source
  • 10
    API-based CMS
  • 8
    Self-hostable
  • 4
    Version 9 is Javascript Based
  • 2
    Graphql
  • 1
    Data visualizations
  • 1
    Flows
  • 1
    User permissisons
  • 1
    User roles
  • 1
    Components
  • 1
    Modular
  • 1
    Responsiveness
  • 1
    Useful API
  • 1
    Metrics

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Cons of Craft
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    • 4
      Php based

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    What is Craft?

    Craft is a content management system (CMS) that’s laser-focused on doing one thing really, really well: managing content.

    What is Directus?

    Let's say you're planning on managing content for a website, native app, and widget. Instead of using a CMS that's baked into the website client, it makes more sense to decouple your content entirely and access it through an API or SDK. That's a headless CMS. That's Directus.

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    What are some alternatives to Craft and Directus?
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