Directus: The Modern Data Stack, Democratized

Developer Tooling

A modern data platform, designed for developers

Our modular codebase is 100% JavaScript, leveraging the power of Node.js and Vue.js 3 for blazing-performance and easy extensibility.

Explore our API reference

import { Directus } from '@directus/sdk';

const directus = new Directus('https://example.com');

await directus.items('articles').readByQuery({
  search: 'introducing',
  sort: ['date_published'],
  limit: 1
});
{
  "id": 430,
  "title": "Introducing the All New Directus 9",
  "date_published": "2020-11-12T17:56:41Z",
  "author": {
    "id": 43,
    "name": "Benjamin Haynes"
  },
  "summary": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..."
}

1. Your Database

Directus installs on top of any SQL database

You remain in complete control of your new or existing database. No need to migrate to a proprietary data model, so there's no vendor lock-in.

See supported SQL vendors

2. The Directus API

Save months building and maintaining your APIs

Design and build a production-grade REST+GraphQL API in minutes, with built-in authentication options, granular access control, and asset management

Browse the API Reference

3. The Directus No-Code App

Code-free data exploration and content management

Enable anyone (even the most non-technical business users) to author content, manage media, and visualize data in a beautiful, white-labeled app.

Read the App Guide

4. Connected Projects

Internal dashboards to omnichannel experiences

The fastest way to build an admin panel, manage digital experiences content, power SaaS platforms, organize IoT data, or anything else you can dream up.

Explore use-cases

“We had departments using many different CMS. They ranged from extremely expensive to open-source projects. Directus has proven to be better than all the others.”
Dr. Brian Myers
Principal Cloud Engineer at Bose
In addition to our perfect rating on G2, Directus was also awarded six major accolades for the Summer 2022 quarter. These include High Performer, Easiest to Use, Best ROI, Most Likely to Recommend, and more.
G2 — 5.0 out of 5 rating
Summer 2022 Quarter
“Directus is a powerful tool offering a lot of flexibility. The back office is very intuitive and it’s possible to do many things. The tool can be used in open source and very customizable, Directus allowed us to develop websites using our favorite framework: next.js.”
Kiril Gorbatenko
CEO, Web Vision 360
“Directus is quite impressive about the potentials it have from a business point of view. The software is easy to configure and the community is very active continously improving the available functionalities and solving known issues”
Vincenzo Lupia
DevOps Developer, Doxee
“Directus cloud takes the amazing product the team has built and pushes it one step further. It's probably the least restrictive web-based data management system you'll find, and being able to run up an instance in a matter of minutes makes things so much easier when you just need to test something small.”
Austin Phillip Taylor
Web developer and designer
“It started with the ease of "just quickly set up a project" for small projects, but we soon discovered that so much more was possible! We replaced a lot of our Laravel/Nova projects without writing additional extensions, if we do need custom logic it’s super easy.”
Jeroen Ling
Senior Frontend Developer & DevOps Engineer, Vanling
“I never experienced any smoother experience setting up any content management system (including the old guys like WordPress or Drupal). From a product and/or IT lead perspective, it brings you so much power for so many use cases - without a huge price tag or complexity.”
Jens Kuerschner
Product Lead, arculus
“Directus enabled us to make our own choices and set the YIA website up in the right way, whereas other more opinionated situations prohibit that freedom of choice.”
Matt Skinner
Technical Lead, Cucumber Digtital Agency
“Directus is open-source and provides an easy-to-use interface that allows me and my users to navigate the system to update data and content. The Rest API is well-documented making integration into any system very easy! I love being able to set up a new project in minutes rather than hours.”
Shea Lavington
Open Source Advocate
“Tripadvisor is using Directus to bring our products, data and content closer together. This will allow our users to plan and experience travel in new and innovative ways.”
Antoine Veliz
VP, Design at Tripadvisor
“Directus unifies our data coming in from across the country, adding value, and redistributing the consolidated data back out to stakeholders with its built-in API. Directus also acts as a validation and improvement tool, allowing non-technical staff to manually verify or flag issues with generated data connections.”
Brent Cartier
Strategy Lead for Digital Services, Canadian Government

Power any project

with a modern, open source data platform

A modern data platform, designed for developers

Directus installs on top of any SQL database

Save months building and maintaining your APIs

Code-free data exploration and content management

Internal dashboards to omnichannel experiences

Build with confidence on a proven platform

20m+

18k+

6.6k+

A flexible platform, endless solutions...

Instantly layers on top of any SQL database

Ready to learn more?

Power any project

with a modern, open source data platform

A modern data platform, designed for developers

Directus installs on top of any SQL database

Save months building and maintaining your APIs

Code-free data exploration and content management

Internal dashboards to omnichannel experiences

Build with confidence on a proven platform

20m+

18k+

6.6k+

A flexible platform, endless solutions...

Instantly layers on top of any SQL database

Ready to learn more?

Take back control of your data.