directus

The flexible backend for all your projects 🐰 Turn your DB into a headless CMS, admin panels, or apps with a custom UI, instant APIs, auth & more.

⭐ 36,012 stars on GitHub · 🍴 4,789 forks · 📜 License: other · 💻 Language: TypeScript

What is directus?

Wrapping a modern API and an intuitive admin panel around any SQL database instantly changes how your team handles backend development. Directus acts as a dynamic, composable layer over your raw data, delivering a fully-fledged headless CMS and backend-as

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ api
• 🏷️ app
• 🏷️ cms
• 🏷️ composable
• 🏷️ data-visualization
• 🏷️ database
• 🏷️ directus
• 🏷️ graphql
• 🏷️ headless-cms
• 🏷️ javascript

Quick install

The project supports Docker Compose:

git clone https://github.com/directus/directus.git
cd directus
docker compose up -d

Check the README in the repo for required env variables.

Minimum system requirements

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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: directus/directus
• 🌐 Homepage: https://directus.com
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 13/06/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.