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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.
Pros of Craft
- Quick bespoke CMS8
- Easy to use CMS7
- Clean slate approach to templating6
- Has it's own StackExcange2
- Clean templating markup (twig)2
- Great support2
- Free licence available for single user account version2
Pros of Directus
- Open Source11
- API-based CMS10
- Self-hostable8
- Version 9 is Javascript Based4
- Graphql2
- Data visualizations1
- Flows1
- User permissisons1
- User roles1
- Components1
- Modular1
- Responsiveness1
- Useful API1
- Metrics1
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Cons of Craft
Cons of Directus
- Php based4