Cockpit vs KeystoneJS

Overview

Cockpit

Stacks57

Followers237

Votes20

KeystoneJS

Stacks69

Followers209

Votes27

Cockpit vs KeystoneJS: What are the differences?

Cockpit: Add content management functionality to any site - plug & play CMS. An API-driven CMS without forcing you to make compromises in how you implement your site. The CMS for developers. Manage content like collections, regions, forms and galleries which you can reuse anywhere on your website; KeystoneJS: Node.js CMS and web application platform built on Express and MongoDB. Keystone is the easiest way to build database-driven websites, applications and APIs in Node.js.

Cockpit belongs to "Cloud Content Management System" category of the tech stack, while KeystoneJS can be primarily classified under "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS".

Some of the features offered by Cockpit are:

Self hosted
Crazy fast & lightweight
Flexible

On the other hand, KeystoneJS provides the following key features:

Express.js and MongoDB
Dynamic Routes
Database Fields

Cockpit and KeystoneJS are both open source tools. It seems that KeystoneJS with 14.6K GitHub stars and 2.35K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Cockpit with 3.95K GitHub stars and 390 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

Cockpit	KeystoneJS
An API-driven CMS without forcing you to make compromises in how you implement your site. The CMS for developers. Manage content like collections, regions, forms and galleries which you can reuse anywhere on your website.	Keystone is the easiest way to build database-driven websites, applications and APIs in Node.js.
Self hosted;Crazy fast & lightweight; Flexible; Expandable;Modern & Simple Interface	Express.js and MongoDB;Dynamic Routes;Database Fields;Auto-generated Admin UI;Simpler Code;Form Processing;Session Management;Email Sending
Statistics
Stacks 57	Stacks 69
Followers 237	Followers 209
Votes 20	Votes 27
Pros & Cons
Pros 3 Open Source 3 Fast & lightweight 3 Modular 3 Easy for Content Managers to understand and use 3 Self hosted	Pros 7 Out-of-box tools and basic services 3 Large community 2 Great CMS and API platform 2 Great schema-based auto-generated admin interface 2 Great sandbox to play with nodejs
Integrations
No integrations available	Node.js MongoDB ExpressJS

What are some alternatives to Cockpit, KeystoneJS?

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.

Drupal

Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.

Strapi

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.

Ghost

Ghost is a platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing. It's beautifully designed, completely customisable and completely Open Source. Ghost allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do.

Wagtail

Wagtail is a Django content management system built originally for the Royal College of Art and focused on flexibility and user experience.

OctoberCMS

It is a Laravel-based CMS engineered for simplicity. It has a simple and intuitive interface. It provides a consistent structure with an emphasis on reusability so you can focus on building something unique while we handle the boring bits.

Twill

Twill is an open source CMS toolkit for Laravel that helps developers rapidly create a custom admin console that is intuitive, powerful and flexible.

Sanity

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.

Contentful

With Contentful, you can bring your content anywhere using our APIs, completely customize your content structure all while using your preferred programming languages and frameworks.

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