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Strapi vs Locomotive CMS: What are the differences?
Developers describe Strapi as "An open-source Headless-CMS *". It is an open source Node.js Headless CMS to easily build customisable APIs. It lets you manage your content and distribute it anywhere. It allows you to securely and privately serve your database of choice from your hosting and server of choice. On the other hand, *Locomotive CMS** is detailed as "An open source platform to create, publish and edit sites". It is designed to save time and help you focus on what matters: front-end technology, standard development process and a very low learning curve for your clients.
Strapi and Locomotive CMS can be primarily classified as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.
Strapi is an open source tool with 16.9K GitHub stars and 1.93K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Strapi's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Locomotive CMS
Pros of Strapi
- Free57
- Open source40
- Self-hostable28
- Rapid development27
- API-based cms25
- Headless21
- Real-time18
- Easy setup16
- Large community13
- JSON13
- GraphQL6
- Social Auth4
- Internationalization4
- Components2
- Media Library2
- Raspberry pi1
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Cons of Locomotive CMS
Cons of Strapi
- Can be limiting9
- Internationalisation8
- A bit buggy6
- DB Migrations not seemless5