In a recent performance test, we wanted to see how a real-world, complex document query might fare while retrieved from the three different CMS' GraphQL endpoints.
Payload's Admin UI is built with React, and you can easily swap out components with your own React components. Directus is built with Vue, is significantly less popular alternative.
Payload features a local Node API, which allows you to perform operations directly on your server, with no HTTP layer required. Directus's SDK relies on Axios to interact, which is significantly slower and less powerful.
Payload features deep field-based localization support. Maintaining as many locales as you need is easy. Only need to localize a few fields? No problem, all other fields will use your fallback locale.
Both document and field-level hooks expose a ton of potential. Customize output, sanitize incoming data, or easily integrate with third-party platforms. A truly powerful pattern.
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