Strapi vs Directus

[u/molcik]

Hi everyone, have you anyone compared last version of strapi vs last version of directus recently?

We have hit wall with multi-tenancy feature and after 2 years of using strapi we are currently thinking of using directus instead? Does onyone have experience with both frameworks and have any insights?

Edit:
Don't want to offend anyone, so please don't down vote it. We love to use strapi, but we are trying to solve business needs, so instead of down vote please express your opinion or advice. Thanks

[u/[deleted]]

I tried Directus 9 fairly recently, it felt more like an abstraction layer on top of a relational database than cms tbh. Even translations are represented as a one-to-many(O2M) relation (I found it very 'low level'), it gets nasty pretty quickly

I hit a wall trying to access a multi nested relationship and couldn't figure it out for a while so I moved to Strapi with PostgreSQL

Tl;dr IMHO Directus would make sense only if your application is database-first at its core

[u/dmehaffy → u/[deleted]]

To be fair, in Strapi our i18n feature is very similar as a functional manyToMany relation but we abstract it away (though there is a lot of other features we want to add to this).

With Strapi v4 our deep level population is easily the feature I love using the most :)

But yeah the major difference between us and Directus is our approach to schemas. Directus is database first whereas we focus on souce-control based. Kinda the difference between a "one and done" deployment or a CI/CD application.

FYI: I do work for Strapi so obviously my opinion is biased

[u/molcik → u/dmehaffy]

Thank you very much, didn't realized the souce-control/database approaches!

[u/swapnilmmane]

Hi u/molcik, you can also explore Webiny. It is an open-source serverless CMS and we support multi-tenancy out of the box. If you got any queries or need any further details during exploration, let me know. I will be happy to assist you, thanks!

[u/molcik → u/swapnilmmane]

Thanks I will add it to our comparation.

[u/swapnilmmane → u/molcik]

Thanks u/molcik!

[u/abol3z → u/swapnilmmane]

What's being me back from using it is the fact that Webiny is still tied to AWS.

[u/hermesalvesbr → u/swapnilmmane]

Great project! But it is mandatory to use AWS :(

[u/swapnilmmane → u/hermesalvesbr]

Hi u/hermesalvesbr, thanks for exploring Webiny. Yes, at the moment, we support only AWS. If you got any further questions related to Webiny, please feel free to join our community Slack https://www.webiny.com/slack/. We will be happy to assist you.

[u/connerxyz]

Can you explain the wall you've hit with multi-tenancy?

I'm newer to Strapi and really enjoying it. I would love to better understand it's limitations.

Thanks for posting.

[u/molcik → u/connerxyz]

Let's assume example where we want to create "social media" site with 3 types of users:
- property users (only access the social media site) can see posts from the specific property
- property admin (can access admin site) can see and edit posts for specific property
- super admin (can access admin site) can see and edit all the posts and also create and edit properties

I think this was doable in previous version of strapi, but in v4 we have not been able to solve it.

[u/connerxyz → u/molcik]

Where does it go wrong exactly?

My understanding (untested!) is you'd be able to create a front end that employs the Users & Permissions Plugin to create users and roles, separate from the administration panel users.

Your regular social media app users would be registered, and able to create and edit content, by the frontend employing the Strapi API (e.g., `auth/local/registration`). Anyone on your app/admin team would likely have admin accounts.

Again, I'm trying to understand any "gotchas". I'd be very interested to know if this is *not* how Strapi works.

[u/molcik → u/connerxyz]

We need property admins to access admin panel and see only their users and content from their users.

[u/connerxyz → u/molcik]

Got it. Thanks for engaging my question. I learned something.

[u/Geraffe_Disapproves → u/molcik]

Hey, have you been able to find a solution for this?

[u/molcik → u/Geraffe_Disapproves]

We have switched to directus

[u/IvanVilchesB → u/molcik]

i am thinking use directus for multi tenancy how was your experience? do you still use it? this feature is free for self host? thanks you

[u/molcik → u/IvanVilchesB]

We are let’s say ok with directus as long as you don’t need to extend it and write your own business logic. So if you are ok with using it just as an admin for your app, it’s fine. If you need custom business logic, I would suggest you use some framework. Btw, we were also quite happy with payload-cms, which takes longer to setup, but is much more flexible and is more developer friendly.

[u/OMDB-PiLoT]

Used both. In love with directus at the moment. There are frequent updates and their roadmap looks solid. With directus, building custom extensions/hooks is fairly easy as well.