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KeystoneJS vs ExpressionEngine: What are the differences?
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; ExpressionEngine: Open-Source and feature-rich content management system. It is a flexible, feature-rich, free open-source content management platform that empowers hundreds of thousands of individuals and organizations around the world to easily manage their web site.
KeystoneJS and ExpressionEngine belong to "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by KeystoneJS are:
- Express.js and MongoDB
- Dynamic Routes
- Database Fields
On the other hand, ExpressionEngine provides the following key features:
- Your site content is stored in channels—flexible data containers with fields for any type of information
- A Template may contain ANYTHING that a webpage might contain: HTML, JavaScript, PHP, whatever
- Live Preview
KeystoneJS and ExpressionEngine are both open source tools. It seems that KeystoneJS with 14.7K GitHub stars and 2.37K forks on GitHub has more adoption than ExpressionEngine with 183 GitHub stars and 46 GitHub forks.
Pros of ExpressionEngine
Pros of KeystoneJS
- Out-of-box tools and basic services7
- Large community3
- Great schema-based auto-generated admin interface2
- Great CMS and API platform2
- Great sandbox to play with nodejs2
- Great integrations1
- A great MEAN stack1
- Detail documentations and tutorials1
- Free1
- Rapid development1
- Open source1
- "easy setup", "uses mongodb"1
- Fast on V81
- Similar to wordpress1
- Fast growing community cms framework1
- Great culture1