Directus Reviews & Product Details

The most helpful of Directus is that the UI is super friendly, which helps build your custom headless API. The setup is straightforward to complete; you can have Directus running in like two minutes. Also, the Discord channel is very active, and everyone is willing to help you.

The downside of Directus is that it is open source. It may be a positive thing if Directus could reach more developers. The community will be bigger and more people are willing to help fix issues.

At this moment, I have several NuxtJS applications running with Directus as a headless API. Before I tried Directus, I was using the WordPress JSON API. I have never had any regrets after switching over to Directus.

Unlimited permissions, users and fastest api.

Just English documentation. It's better if exists another languages for Portuguese .

Backend for managed data and fastest api models.

The Directus interface is very easy to use, it's built to be efficient and is exactly that, my users don't have any issues with understanding how to create, read, update or delete rows of data. As a developer, the API is very easy to work with making it quick to get the data I need. The recent move to Node is a move in the right direction and works exceptionally speedy!

There's nothing I don't like about Directus.

The API makes it very easy to interface with a range of integrations, from basic website articles to hardware connections.

We love how easy and flexible Directus is to use as our CMS. We have created a whole system of pages with content, reviews, widgets, and more. It really works well with managing all of our content and adding new pages instantly.

Sometimes it can be a tad buggy, plus it is not just an out of the box integration like something with WordPress would be. Wordpress is more flexible with an entire app marketplace, although performance sometimes suffers.

We built our entire content business on directus. You have to have some sort of technical background in order to set it up and maintain it ongoing.

Directus is an SQL wrapper. One can start with an existing DB schema or use the app to build the schema. When one's done, the resultant is a database that could be moved to another solution with little effort. This ensures that I'm using a product but not locked into it. That said, I can't see any reason we would leave it in the near term. It now works with most databases, the admin tool is easy to use (even for the non-technical), it provides an API, security is solid, documentation is clean, open-source support is solid, and the enterprise offerings fit all our possible needs.

I'm generally not the biggest fan of CMS's. As a developer, one should be solid in DB's, and in the era of microservices, one should be able to work up the other infrastructure quickly. This one-off approach creates a faster system. However, many instances don't need those percentage points in performance, and instead, value is gained from the ability to drop in a solution quickly. This fits the bill. I'd also add that going back to v7, the major releases were too buggy, and the first couple of months after the release saw a lot of churn. After v8.3, this product has been solid with excellent updates. The first rc's for v9 were enticing, and I am happy to note they don't appear to be releasing the v9 major release until the churn-period is over.

We use Directus for various cataloging of content that feeds out to other systems or over the internet where extreme optimization isn't necessary. Directus has good performance. This provides an interface where non-technical people can enter content, technical people can keep it clean, and Directus Cloud maintains it. Simple, dependable, low effort.

The support Directus offers has been exemplary, during our migration to start using Directus, we had many questions and their support has been responsive and helpful during the whole process. The open-source nature of Directus, has allowed us to contribute fixes and improvements to the product, without having to wait for their engineering team to implement them. The language support out of the box, was one of the reason we went with Directus.

The lack of clear documentation, but this has been improving since our move to Directus. Since we started using Directus, the documentation has improved 10 fold. The lack of some specific customization options around extensions, but this is to be expected with all products.

Deploying multiple websites with 13 languages. The ease and customization of how we want to use Directus to deliver our content has been fantastic.

I've tried many quick-start admin environments across many technologies such as Laravel Nova, Forestry.io, Strapi, and many others. What I like about Directus is that it provides Auth, API, media management, a great GUI, a fast admin experience, and tons of customization points where I want them. Everything I thought I would need to look for was already there. It was both simple and powerful.

It's possible to corrupt schemas and data, and that is a hopeless feeling when it happens.

I am trying to stand up an admin panel for a SPA where I can quickly seed information to be provided by an API. and be consumed by a javascript front end. Directus is a great fit. I have realized that in the time it would take me to sketch an ERD, I can build the database, put it in production, and have auth and API available.

Easy to use yet extensible, simple UI but robust features/abilities, and quick implementation!

There have been significant strides in the developer documentation and experience, but there is still room for growth!

Directus is powering multiple websites and apps, from a simple website CMS to a complex membership system, to a directory for identity accounts, etc.

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.

I've yet to run into any issues with the product or the team!

We use Directus as a backend to a corporate blog that we need to be highly configurable and API-driven. It allows us to build the way we like, and not worry about software/package maintenance.

The more flexible tool I've ever tried. I used other Headless CMS, and I can say Directus is the only one that takes content management to another level. Extremely friendly and modern for the users and with the database mirroring and the different ways make the information accessible, it is the most potent tool for any development approach.

I don't dislike anything, but I could say the latest version is very new, still in progress for a stable release, and it is possible to find some minor issues. I've been looking at the project, and they are working hard to have a stable version in late 2021. The documentation is good, but maybe it would be good to have more practical cases.

New projects require having APIs, and make them from scratch is very time-consuming. Directus allows to save all that time and focus on the clients' needs and having by default an excellent and modern content management tool. The database mirroring is outstanding, and we migrated in minutes very complex database models.

The software worked with small glitches but worked fine. Very easy to use and fast to setup.

Recent price change that was 5x increase.

Easy setup and replacement for custom Laravel panel.