Directus VS Payload CMS

Directus Reviews

Payload CMS Reviews

1. Alessio Gravili    

   Founder at Bonfire Leads e.K. | 12 months ago
   Best Headless CMS

   Payload CMS is the most customizable & flexible CMS which exists

   🏁 Competitors: Strapi, Directus, Sanity.io, Prismic

   👍 Pros:    Everything can be customized|Swap out any admin components|Ability to create your own fields|Automatic graphql & rest api|Define collections & fields in code|Serverless support

   👎 Cons:    Does not support all databases yet

Directus mentions (118)

• How to Deploy Directus as a Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) on Koyeb

  Directus is an open data platform built to serve as a headless CMS, API, or Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) for other applications. It is designed to make data accessible to people of all technical levels and to make it easy to build data-centric applications. Directus is extensible and can be integrated with many different frontend technologies to create stable, well-structured development and user experiences. - Source: dev.to / 4 days ago

• Form to DB

  I don't know, it's something I've wanted many times. Recently I discovered https://directus.io/ which comes pretty close and it's open source. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  Directus — Headless CMS. A completely free and open-source platform for managing assets and database content on-prem or in the Cloud. There are no limitations or paywalls. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• A Year of Self-Hosting: 6 Open-Source Projects That Surprised Me in 2023

  The Backend to Build Anything or Everything | Directus. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Prismic.io is increasing our price by *1900%* over Christmas

  I using Directus CMS on several projects with pretty complicated flows, api extensions etc. probably there will be some work if you move. I liked Directus is because it's standard SQL I can always move my DB and documents to another solution. I don't use their hosted solution but they have an unlimited offering for $100 / month. Source: 5 months ago

Payload CMS mentions (83)

• Ask HN: Freelance website builders/maintainers, what's in your 2024 toolkit?

  My most recent project launched in January. NextJS 14 client integrated with PayloadCMS (http://payloadcms.com) for the back-end. I love both technologies in theory, but they're both going through a renaissance period and "bleeding edge" doesn't even begin to describe it. If I'm just building a client app, create-react-app is still my go to. Before now, I'd been building on... - Source: Hacker News / 28 days ago

• Prismic.io is increasing our price by *1900%* over Christmas

  Payload is free, you can self host it without paying a one time fee or a SaaS fee for its use, it even says so at the bottom of the homepage. Source: 5 months ago

• Next.js 14: No New APIs & Breaking Changes

  James, the co-founder of Payload, a headless CMS with MongoDB support, shared his insights on the drawbacks and limitations of using a headless CMS in the context of web development. He challenged the promises often made about headless CMS, such as separation of concerns and ease of content migration, revealing that these claims often don't align with the reality faced by developers and clients. James is... - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• Payload CMS -Authentication in Nuxt Using a Custom Plugin

  This is a companion blog post to support the video on a way to integrate Payload CMS SignIn, SignOut and Create Account in a Nuxt JS Application. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

• Getting Started with PayloadCMS & Vue JS

  In this video series, we will set up PayloadCMS Headless CMS, create a Customers collection, log in as a Customer, create an account as a Customer. Then build a simple vuejs website that can login using the API created by PayloadCMS and finally look at the changes needed to go from website to mobile application with Ionic Framework. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago