Directus

"Directus is a an Excellent Choice for any Data Driven Experience"

What do you like best about Directus? Easy to use yet extensible, simple UI but robust features/abilities, and quick implementation! What do you dislike about Directus? There have been significant strides in the developer documentation and experience, but there is still room for growth! What problems is Directus solving and how is that benefiting you? Directus is powering multiple websites and apps, from a simple website CMS to a complex membership system, to a directory for identity ...

"We use this instead of Firebase, Hasura or Supabase"

What do you like best about Directus? It's like a self-hosted Firebase or hasura for SQL databases. It can also serve as a backend app to manage your data. A javascript sdk can be used in React, Vue, Svelte, etc. Also offers a GraphQL and REST API. Flexible permissions with roles and fully ReBAC-capable authorization. Use your existing LDAP, OpenID or OAuth2 provider or use Directus Auth, which offers 2FA and sends password reset emails etc. Configure no code endpoints with Directus Flows ...

"Simple and Fast"

What do you like best about Directus? Core developers keep on improving and adding features based on the community inputs. What do you dislike about Directus? 1. Migration between different environments is more complicated. 2. Sort by relational field is a missing feature, might not be required by all. Recommendations to others considering Directus: Start using directus for your app development, and you will never regret it. What problems is Directus solving and how is that benefiting ...

"We regularly use Directus and we are particularly attached to the power and flexibility of the tool."

What do you like best about Directus? Powerful tool offering a lot of flexibility. The back office is very intuitive. It is possible to do many things with Directus. The tool can be used in open source and very customizable What do you dislike about Directus? Nothing displeases us in Directus. The axis of improvement can be oriented for the use that e-merchants can have with the tool. For us is the best Headless Content Managment System What problems is Directus solving and how is that ...

"Amazing experience with self-hosted Directus"

What do you like best about Directus? Easy to use, reliable and endless possibilities of customization What do you dislike about Directus? Nothing, we have been using Directus for the last 16 months and we are having a great experience What problems is Directus solving and how is that benefiting you? Directus acts as both a headless CMS and data platform, so it solves 2 problems at the same time: exposing and retaining our data

"Great product, great support"

What do you like best about Directus? Flexibility and great user experience and ease of creating relational databases What do you dislike about Directus? It is too easy to create unefficient models. Flexibility comes with that downside... What problems is Directus solving and how is that benefiting you? Easily creating data models and content management

"Amazing piece of kit"

What do you like best about Directus? API that gives REST and GraphQL. Built-in Frontend that works as Admin UI as well as Product App. Very Highly Extensible. 90% configuration and only 10% code. Increases velocity and lets the team focus on business logic. Bring your own brand customization. What do you dislike about Directus? Documentation is appalling but open source helps reverse engineer that. Things like multi-project, multi-database, WebSockets, GraphQL subscriptions are ...

"Simple and innovative backend solution for various types of projects"

What do you like best about Directus? It all started with the ease of "just quickly set up a project" for small projects or internal data. In a short time, we discovered that so much more was possible! We can actually replace a lot of our Laravel/Nova projects without writing additional extensions. If we do need to write custom logic then that is also super easy to do! Since the last update, Directus has workflow support which has opened up a whole new world for us and we now have to write ...

"Superb product"

What do you like best about Directus? Directus is a flexible, easy-to-use product that has everything to fuel projects of any type and complexity. What do you dislike about Directus? Some features are missing. But the road map is rich and we look forward for future developments. What problems is Directus solving and how is that benefiting you? Content management, roles and permission. A platform to manage all our needs in one place.

"Great Experience with Directus"

What do you like best about Directus? Directus has been very responsive throughout our engagement and was very accomodating to get us set up and going on an enterprise instance quickly. The product itself has met or exceeded our expectations. What do you dislike about Directus? I've yet to run into any issues with the product or the team! What problems is Directus solving and how is that benefiting you? We use Directus as a backend to a corporate blog that we need to be highly configurable ...