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Hung Vu · 2022-07-26T12:01:00.674Z

After looking at a dozen headless content management systems (headless CMSs) for my upcoming blogfolio, I narrowed the choices to only Strapi v4, Directus v9, and Payload v1. This article presents a comparison between the three headless CMSs to figur...

If you have any experience in solving Strapi migration problems, please let me know in the comment section down below

Some important points to consider when comparing DB support:

Since v4, Strapi does not have a good support for DB transactions. The only option (which was added very recently) is to use low-level knex-based transactions which require intimate knowledge of the db schema to write properly, which is an issue because, as you put it in your article, they follow "closed" approach that is, developers don't get to choose how their schema going to look like. So, if ACID is something you need, Strapi may not be your cup of tea.

Thanks for the article, I too have also toyed around with Directus and Strapi and generally agree with your assessment.

May I ask, is there a reason you didn’t consider Contentful other than it is a SaaS and is a paid service?

Hi Shaun wallace, SaaS and other paid services are perfectly fine to me, even on their free plan. The CMSs in this article also have (or soon to have) cloud versions. For a side project, self-host is better a way to learn more skills, so it is my choice.

That said, I did go over Contentful, Prismic, Storyblok, and GraphCMS in my How To Choose The Best Headless CMS For Your Blogfolio? article and they generally lack features compared to solutions presented in this article.

I hope this answer your question.

You might be interested in KeystoneJS v6, looks extremely promising and was released recently.

Hi Aleksandar Bencun, thanks for the suggestion. KeystoneJS v6 is one of my initial choices, but it lacks some features like i18n, and singleton so I decided not to go with it (both features are on the roadmap though).

I went over it in my first article How To Choose The Best Headless CMS For Your Blogfolio?. There, I made some comparisons between KeystoneJS v6 and other CMS on the market, you might want to take a look at it!

Hung Vu yeah lack of i18n is the problematic bit for me as well. The project still looks very promising to me looking at the roadmap. I'll make sure to check out that other article of yours. Quality insight, keep it up!

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