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Alternatives to Drupal

Joomla!, WordPress, Django, ProcessWire, and Typo3 are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Drupal.
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What is Drupal and what are its top alternatives?

Drupal is a powerful open-source content management system (CMS) that allows users to create and manage websites. It offers extensive customization options, scalability, and a large community of users and developers. However, Drupal can have a steep learning curve for beginners, and some users may find it more complex than other CMS platforms.

  1. WordPress: WordPress is one of the most popular CMS platforms, known for its user-friendly interface and extensive plugin ecosystem. It offers a wide range of themes and customization options, making it a versatile choice for websites of all sizes. However, it may not be as robust as Drupal for large and complex websites.
  2. Joomla: Joomla is another popular CMS option that offers a good balance between user-friendliness and customization options. It is known for its strong multi-lingual support and robust community. However, it may not be as scalable as Drupal for complex websites.
  3. Magento: Magento is a CMS platform specifically designed for e-commerce websites. It offers powerful features for online stores, including inventory management, payment processing, and marketing tools. However, it may be overkill for websites that do not require e-commerce functionality.
  4. Wix: Wix is a website builder platform that offers simplified drag-and-drop features for creating websites. It is ideal for beginners and small businesses looking to quickly set up a website. However, it may not offer the same level of customization as Drupal.
  5. Squarespace: Squarespace is another website builder platform known for its beautiful templates and intuitive design tools. It is a great option for creatives and small businesses looking to showcase their work online. However, it may have limitations in terms of scalability and customization compared to Drupal.
  6. Shopify: Shopify is a popular e-commerce platform that offers a range of features for setting up online stores. It is known for its ease of use and extensive app store for added functionality. However, it may not offer the same level of flexibility as Drupal for custom website development.
  7. Ghost: Ghost is a modern CMS platform focused on blogging and content creation. It offers a clean and minimalist interface, ideal for writers and bloggers. However, it may lack the same level of customization options as Drupal for more complex websites.
  8. Strapi: Strapi is an open-source headless CMS that offers flexibility and scalability for developers. It allows for easy content management and integration with various frontend technologies. However, it may require more technical expertise compared to Drupal for setup and customization.
  9. Umbraco: Umbraco is a flexible and customizable CMS platform known for its user-friendly interface and strong developer community. It offers a range of features for creating and managing websites of all sizes. However, it may not have the same level of out-of-the-box functionality as Drupal.
  10. Contentful: Contentful is a headless CMS platform that allows for content management and delivery across multiple channels. It offers a flexible and scalable solution for managing content effectively. However, it may have a steeper learning curve compared to Drupal for users new to headless CMS architectures.

Top Alternatives to Drupal

  • Joomla!
    Joomla!

    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. ...

  • WordPress
    WordPress

    The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family. ...

  • Django
    Django

    Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. ...

  • ProcessWire
    ProcessWire

    ProcessWire is an open source content management system (CMS) and web application framework aimed at the needs of designers, developers and their clients. ProcessWire gives you more control over your fields, templates and markup than other platforms, and provides a powerful template system that works the way you do ...

  • Typo3
    Typo3

    It is a free and open-source Web content management system written in PHP. It can run on several web servers, such as Apache or IIS, on top of many operating systems, among them Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, macOS and OS/2. ...

  • Laravel
    Laravel

    It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching. ...

  • AEM
    AEM

    It is a web-based client-server system for building, managing and deploying commercial websites and related services. It combines a number of infrastructure-level and application-level functions into a single integrated package. ...

  • Magento
    Magento

    Magento Community Edition is perfect if you’re a developer who wants to build your own solution with flexible eCommerce technology. You can modify the core code and add a wide variety of features and functionality. ...

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Dale Ross
Independent Contractor at Self Employed · | 22 upvotes · 1.5M views

I've heard that I have the ability to write well, at times. When it flows, it flows. I decided to start blogging in 2013 on Blogger. I started a company and joined BizPark with the Microsoft Azure allotment. I created a WordPress blog and did a migration at some point. A lot happened in the time after that migration but I stopped coding and changed cities during tumultuous times that taught me many lessons concerning mental health and productivity. I eventually graduated from BizSpark and outgrew the credit allotment. That killed the WordPress blog.

I blogged about writing again on the existing Blogger blog but it didn't feel right. I looked at a few options where I wouldn't have to worry about hosting cost indefinitely and Jekyll stood out with GitHub Pages. The Importer was fairly straightforward for the existing blog posts.

Todo * Set up redirects for all posts on blogger. The URI format is different so a complete redirect wouldn't work. Although, there may be something in Jekyll that could manage the redirects. I did notice the old URLs were stored in the front matter. I'm working on a command-line Ruby gem for the current plan. * I did find some of the lost WordPress posts on archive.org that I downloaded with the waybackmachinedownloader. I think I might write an importer for that. * I still have a few Disqus comment threads to map

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A White
Front End Web Dev at Burnt Design · | 21 upvotes · 54.6K views

Below is my own professional history to give some context to my current skill set. I have been a front-end dev for 18 years. My tools of choice are:

  • HTML5
  • CSS 3
  • JavaScript
  • WordPress
  • PHP (but not my strongest skill as I don't write it too often)

I first of all would like to become a better and more 'full stack' developer, and I have a business idea that will hopefully allow me to move in this direction. The queries I have will result in which approach I take here. One of the most important aspects to me is the system being 'future proof'. If successful I know I will eventually bring additional developers on board, and they will likely be better developers than me! I want to avoid them having to rebuild the system and would like it to be something that they can just expand and improve on.

The business which I'd like to create is the following (in a nutshell), I have ideas for many more features, but this is how I'd like to begin:

Web-based system for gym management & marketing. Specifically a class-based gym

  1. One-stop shop for a class-based gym owner
  2. Sell memberships
  3. Manage class bookings
  4. Reporting
  5. Automatically generated website
  6. Choose a pre-designed template and amend the content through their dashboard
  7. Marketing
  8. Easily send a newsletter to members
  9. Book a free trial form on the website linked directly to the booking system

Important requirements

  1. One system, one dashboard. I would like the gym owner to have one place to control everything. Members, marketing, and website amendments.
  2. Future proof. These features are the bare minimum and I'd like to keep expanding on the features as time goes on. Things like uploading programming for members, messaging between members and admin, and selling merchandise via the website.
  3. Fast to load & secure. I live in the WordPress world right now, which isn't the fastest or most secure environment. I appreciate there are better ways to develop a system like this, but I'm a little clueless about where to start.
  4. Mobile. The data created should easily communicate with a mobile app that customers will download to manage their memberships and class bookings.

TIA to anybody that can provide some guidance on where to start here.

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    Mvt
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    Batteries included
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    Its elegant and practical
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    Have not found anything that it can't do
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    Very quick to get something up and running
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    Cross-Platform
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    Easy Structure , useful inbuilt library
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    Great peformance
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    Zero code burden to change databases
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    Python community
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    Map
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    Just the right level of abstraction
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    Easy to change database manager
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    Modular
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    Many libraries
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    Easy to use
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    Easy
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    Full-Text Search
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    Scaffold
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    Fastapi
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    Built in common security
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    Scalable
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    Great default admin panel
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    Node js
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    Internal subcomponents coupling
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    Not as clean and nice documentation like Laravel
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Engineer at Uploadcare · | 25 upvotes · 2.4M views

Simple controls over complex technologies, as we put it, wouldn't be possible without neat UIs for our user areas including start page, dashboard, settings, and docs.

Initially, there was Django. Back in 2011, considering our Python-centric approach, that was the best choice. Later, we realized we needed to iterate on our website more quickly. And this led us to detaching Django from our front end. That was when we decided to build an SPA.

For building user interfaces, we're currently using React as it provided the fastest rendering back when we were building our toolkit. It’s worth mentioning Uploadcare is not a front-end-focused SPA: we aren’t running at high levels of complexity. If it were, we’d go with Ember.js.

However, there's a chance we will shift to the faster Preact, with its motto of using as little code as possible, and because it makes more use of browser APIs. One of our future tasks for our front end is to configure our Webpack bundler to split up the code for different site sections. For styles, we use PostCSS along with its plugins such as cssnano which minifies all the code.

All that allows us to provide a great user experience and quickly implement changes where they are needed with as little code as possible.

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      David Watson
      at Realtime App Solutions · | 15 upvotes · 98.6K views

      Coming from a non-web development environment background, I was a bit lost a first and bewildered by all the varying tools and platforms, and spent much too long evaluating before eventualy deciding on Laravel as the main core of my development.

      But as I started development with Laravel that lead me into discovering Vue.js for creating beautiful front-end components that were easy to configure and extend, so I decided to standardise on Vue.js for most of my front-end development.

      During my search for additional Vue.js components, a chance comment in a @laravel forum , led me to discover Quasar Framework initially for it's wide range of in-built components ... but once, I realised that Quasar Framework allowed me to use the same codebase to create apps for SPA, PWA, iOS, Android, and Electron then I was hooked.

      So, I'm now using mainly just Quasar Framework for all the front-end, with Laravel providing a backend API service to the Front-end apps.

      I'm deploying this all to DigitalOcean droplets via service called Moss.sh which deploys my private GitHub repositories directly to DigitalOcean in realtime.

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          I've been in the #frontend game for about 7 years now. I started coding in Sublime Text because all of the tutorials I was doing back then everyone was using it. I found the speed amazing compared to some other tools at the time. I kept using Sublime Text for about 4-5 years.

          I find Sublime Text lacks some functionality, after all it is just a text editor rather than a full fledged IDE. I finally converted over to PhpStorm as I was working with Magento and Magento as you know is mainly #PHP based.

          This was amazing all the features in PhpStorm I loved, the debugging features, and the control click feature when you click on a dependency or linked file it will take you to that file. It was great.

          PhpStorm is kind of slow, I found that Prettier was taking a long time to format my code, and it just was lagging a lot so I was looking for alternatives. After watching some more tutorial videos I noticed that everyone was using Visual Studio Code. So I gave it a go, and its amazing.

          It has support for everything I need with the plugins and the integration with Git is amazing. The speed of this IDE is blazing fast, and I wouldn't go back to using PhpStorm anymore. I highly recommend giving Visual Studio Code a try!

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          Siddhant Sharma
          Tech Connoisseur at Channelize.io · | 12 upvotes · 1.1M views

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          Back in the days, we started looking for a date on different matrimonial websites as there were no Dating Applications. We used to create different profiles. It all changed in 2012 when Tinder, an Online Dating application came into India Market.

          Tinder allowed us to communicate with our potential soul mates. That too without paying any extra money. I too got 4-6 matches in 6 years. It changed the life of many Millennials. Tinder created a revolution of its own. P.S. - I still don't have a date :(

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