Directus
A Free and Open-source Headless CMS
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What is Directus?
A headless CMS that manages your content, not your workflow.
Directus is an API-driven content management framework for custom databases. It decouples content for use in apps, websites, or any other data-driven projects.
Core Principles
Built around three key concepts... with the added bonus of alliteration.
Simple
Directus manages your content with intuitive interfaces that require no training. Pulling everything directly from your database schema, setup is as easy as entering your credentials.
Secure
Nothing is more important than keeping your data safe. That’s why Directus follows best-practices for authentication and access-control, ensuring users only have access to the data you allow.
Scalable
For startups and growing enterprises alike, investing in an ecosystem is nerve-racking when you don't know what the future holds. Fully decoupled and extensible, you’ll never outgrow your CMS again.
Why a “Headless” CMS?
Content should be created and managed independently from where it's used
Multi-Client Projects
Let's say you're planning on managing content for a website, native app, and kiosk. 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.
Workflow & Organization
CMS stands for Content Management System. When did it become synonymous with platforms that maintain project templates, application logic, development workflow, and everything else? Directus gets out of the way and let's you build projects however you'd like. It only manages... content.
Directus was built with modular user-interfaces for editing different types of content. Want to build a WYSIWYG, JSON, or Markdown editor? Have an idea for a map interface? We've got Hosted credits to give away and are looking for developers to create some new UIs.
Directus is an API-driven content management framework for custom databases. It decouples content for use in apps, websites, or any other data-driven projects.
Core Principles
Built around three key concepts... with the added bonus of alliteration.
Simple
Directus manages your content with intuitive interfaces that require no training. Pulling everything directly from your database schema, setup is as easy as entering your credentials.
Secure
Nothing is more important than keeping your data safe. That’s why Directus follows best-practices for authentication and access-control, ensuring users only have access to the data you allow.
Scalable
For startups and growing enterprises alike, investing in an ecosystem is nerve-racking when you don't know what the future holds. Fully decoupled and extensible, you’ll never outgrow your CMS again.
Why a “Headless” CMS?
Content should be created and managed independently from where it's used
Multi-Client Projects
Let's say you're planning on managing content for a website, native app, and kiosk. 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.
Workflow & Organization
CMS stands for Content Management System. When did it become synonymous with platforms that maintain project templates, application logic, development workflow, and everything else? Directus gets out of the way and let's you build projects however you'd like. It only manages... content.
Directus was built with modular user-interfaces for editing different types of content. Want to build a WYSIWYG, JSON, or Markdown editor? Have an idea for a map interface? We've got Hosted credits to give away and are looking for developers to create some new UIs.
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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Directus, and it has gotten 8 likes
- Developed by RANGER Studio
- Open Source and Freemium product.
- Subscription that costs between $29 and $249.
- Average rating of 4.5
- 196 alternatives listed
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Recent user activities on Directus
- vendishbuilder added Directus as alternative(s) to Vemdishabout 9 hours ago
- POX added Directus as alternative(s) to Wagtail CMS6 days ago
- repetitiveblue added Directus as alternative(s) to Mataroa Blog23 days ago
Fast, fairly simple but powerful headless CMS. Not 100% stable now, but promising.
Super powerful tool, so simple but complex and rarely to find tutorials
None of the alternatives listed (so far) seem to really be the same sort of thing. I've been trying to understand this software today. The only thing I have figured out at this point is that it is not like WordPress, Blogger, etc.