Directus Platform

A flexible data engine, built for developers

Modular and extensible, our JavaScript codebase is written entirely in Node.js and Vue.js. We obsess over the developer experience, so you can stay focused on building amazing projects.

Instant API

From database to data platform in 90 seconds

Directus introspects your SQL database, instantly giving you a connectivity toolkit for fetching and managing your database and its content.

  • checkGraphQL+REST APIs based on your schema
  • checkIncludes a full JavaScript SDK and CLI
  • checkCaching and rate-limiting via Redis, memory, etc
  • checkReal-time data and GraphQL subscriptions (coming soon)
id   status     title             category     image    favorite
1 active Rolling Hills landscape 420 1
2 active Pineapple Baby random 483 1
3 draft Headphones Alt products 23 0
4 review Pink Crystals random 311 1
5 active Avocado Toast food 1038 1
6 active Beach Chair products 459 1
7 draft Two Windows landscape 460 0
8 active Lolipops Galore food 1039 0
9 active Beautiful Bunny animals 1738 1
{
"id": 4,
"status": "review",
"title": "Pink Crystals",
"category": "random",
"image": {
"id": 143,
"name": "pink-crystals.png"
},
"date_added": "2020-11-12T17:56:41Z"
}
No-Code App

Browse, manage, and visualize all your data

A flexible powerhouse for engineers, yet safe and intuitive enough for any non-technical users.

  • checkFully customizable Interfaces, Layouts, and Modules
  • checkMultilingual app with 63+ languages
  • checkBrand, theme, and style our white-label platform
  • checkBuild infinite dashboards with Insights
File Library

Powerful digital asset management built-in

Simply connect your local filesystem or S3-compatible storage adapters, and you're ready to go.

  • checkFolders, tagging, filters, and bookmarking
  • checkGranular permission-based file access
  • checkOn-the-fly resizing, compression, and transformations
  • checkAutomatic IPTC, EXIF and ICC metadata scraping

Secure by design.

White-Label Solution

Customize everything, make it yours

Directus is an unopinionated framework that welcomes end-to-end customization, so you never worry about outgrowing the platform.

100% open-source, with no paywalls or limitations

We believe in the true spirit of open-source, never paywalling core features for profit. From corporate applications to hobby projects, our permissive license keeps you in control.

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Integrations

Seamless integration with your favorite frameworks

Our unopinionated platform works with any tech stack. Get started with these popular developer guides, or build within any other framework.

  • “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
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  • 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
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  • “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
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  • “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
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  • “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
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  • “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 Digital Agency
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  • 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
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  • 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
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Ready to learn more?

With over 22 million downloads, Directus is the world's first Open Data Platform for instantly turning any SQL database into an API and beautiful no-code app.

Documentation
Learn more about Directus, read our App Guide, browse tutorials, and dive into our API reference. View the docs
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