The Best Open Source Headless CMS Software

• Ghost

  299 45,658 10.0 JavaScript

  Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.

  

The Ghost platform (GitHub) under the Ghost Foundation is a headless CMS focused on providing a publishing platform from individuals to businesses. The platform is developed using Javascript (Node.js) and is distributed under the MIT license. Ghost offers a suite of modern publishing tools, a fully-featured content editor, multi-author, multi-language content creation, and chronological content.

• Strapi

  457 59,840 10.0 TypeScript

  🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable and developer-first.

  

Strapi (GitHub) is an open source headless CMS designed to work with all Jamstack sites. This developer-focused platform gives developers a flexible and extensible platform to manage and distribute content using their favorite tools and platforms. Strapi supports both relational and non-relational databases and is frontend agnostic, allowing developers to use it with any frontend framework (React, Angular, Vue).

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• Cockpit

  19 5,378 0.0 JavaScript

  Add content management functionality to any site - plug & play / headless / api-first CMS (by agentejo)

  

Cockpit (GitHub) is one of the simplest headless CMS platforms. With its API-first approach, Cockpit aims to provide a simple yet powerful backend to manage content that can be delivered through multiple channels.

• ApostropheCMS

  24 4,252 9.9 JavaScript

  A full-featured, open-source content management framework built with Node.js that empowers organizations by combining in-context editing and headless architecture in a full-stack JS environment.

  

Unlike all other open source CMS software, Apostrophe (GitHub) is a fully-featured open source CMS built with Node.js and MongoDB. Apostrophe offers a headless option through apostrophe-headless, enabling developers to integrate it with any jamstack and provide content through a RESTful API. This combined approach allows developers to mix and match the functionality of a traditional CMS and a headless CMS to meet their exact requirement.

• Directus

  207 25,279 9.9 TypeScript

  The Modern Data Stack 🐰 — Directus is an instant REST+GraphQL API and intuitive no-code data collaboration app for any SQL database.

  

Being the most data-driven headless CMS platform, Directus (GitHub) is all about data. This open source headless CMS platform is built using Node.js and utilizes Vue.js to provide the administration interface. It’s distributed under the GPLv3 license.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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