The Directus showcase

Discover the best projects built with Directus

A hand-curated, daily-updated gallery of open-source projects. Browse the ecosystem, ranked by GitHub stars.

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99 projects

The open source operating system for digital agencies. Built with Directus and Nuxt. Maintained by directus-labs on GitHub, where it has earned 965 stars from the community.

A CLI tool for synchronizing the schema and configuration of Directus across various environments. Maintained by tractr on GitHub, where it has earned 458 stars from the community.

Easily integrate Directus to your Nuxt application. Maintained by Intevel on GitHub, where it has earned 317 stars from the community.

Perform computed value based on other fields. Maintained by rezo-labs on GitHub, where it has earned 226 stars from the community.

A rich text editor (WYSIWYG) with JSON output that allows the integration of M2A relations to make it extremely flexible. A truly rich editor for Directus. Maintained by formfcw on GitHub, where it has earned 209 stars from the community.

Block editor (Editor.js) interface for Directus 9. Maintained by dimitrov-adrian on GitHub, where it has earned 188 stars from the community.

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UI to easily share schema/role between Directus apps. Maintained by rezo-labs on GitHub, where it has earned 166 stars from the community.

Looking to spruce up your projects with stunning visuals? Meet Image Scout, your Directus companion! Search through a world of endless images with providers that include Pexels, Pixabay, Unsplash, and Giphy! (Confirmed Support for v10-10.6.1). Maintained by resauce-dev on GitHub, where it has earned 140 stars from the community.

A set of React components and utilities for Directus Headless CMS. Maintained by gremo on GitHub, where it has earned 134 stars from the community.

Simple Directus 9 extension that sync content with remote search engine. Maintained by dimitrov-adrian on GitHub, where it has earned 120 stars from the community.

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Add advanced link & copy functionalities to your directus fields. Supports interfaces as well as displays. Maintained by utomic-media on GitHub, where it has earned 108 stars from the community.

WordPress alike slug interface for Directus 9. Maintained by dimitrov-adrian on GitHub, where it has earned 100 stars from the community.

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A Directus extension that provides an Insights panel and API endpoint allowing you to chat with your data using OpenAI. Maintained by programmarchy on GitHub, where it has earned 86 stars from the community.

A project worth exploring. Maintained by shocota on GitHub, where it has earned 85 stars from the community.

M2M driven tagging interface for Directus 9. Maintained by dimitrov-adrian on GitHub, where it has earned 81 stars from the community.

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Tiptap rich text editor interface and display for directus. Maintained by gbicou on GitHub, where it has earned 72 stars from the community.

A blog and video hosting site leveraging Astro, Directus, Mux, Lanyard, shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS hosted on Cloudflare. Maintained by zpuckeridge on GitHub, where it has earned 71 stars from the community.

Display URLs, emails and phone numbers as links in Directus. Maintained by AlexGaillard on GitHub, where it has earned 67 stars from the community.

Directus Extension to display items as grid with customizable, flexible display. Maintained by codihaus on GitHub, where it has earned 66 stars from the community.

Template for project structure with nextjs 14 - next auth - directus and typescript. Maintained by pintoderian on GitHub, where it has earned 65 stars from the community.

Group fields into modal dialog, accessible via button. Maintained by dimitrov-adrian on GitHub, where it has earned 64 stars from the community.

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A collection of media-related AI extensions for Directus. Maintained by Arood on GitHub, where it has earned 62 stars from the community.

CLI and library to generate TypeScript types from Directus collections for use with Directus SDK. Maintained by bryantgillespie on GitHub, where it has earned 61 stars from the community.

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Masked input interface extension for Directus 9. Maintained by dimitrov-adrian on GitHub, where it has earned 61 stars from the community.

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Schema Presets for Directus Schema Management Module. Maintained by rezo-labs on GitHub, where it has earned 51 stars from the community.

Starter to deploy Directus on fly.io. Maintained by freekrai on GitHub, where it has earned 51 stars from the community.

Unofficial Directus client for Nuxt. Maintained by becem-gharbi on GitHub, where it has earned 51 stars from the community.

Use ChatGPT language models to automatically translate your content through Directus Flows!. Maintained by timio23 on GitHub, where it has earned 47 stars from the community.

A Theme Builder for Directus. Maintained by ThijmenGThN on GitHub, where it has earned 46 stars from the community.

An interface to manage directus fields in the administration panel. Maintained by lucasfrey on GitHub, where it has earned 45 stars from the community.

directus extension for swagger interface and custom endpoints definitions and validations. Maintained by sacconazzo on GitHub, where it has earned 45 stars from the community.

Directus Community Helm Chart. Maintained by directus-labs on GitHub, where it has earned 43 stars from the community.

An easy to use insight panel to see custom raw query data from database. Maintained by 7span on GitHub, where it has earned 43 stars from the community.

Trigger API calls from the UI. Maintained by rezo-labs on GitHub, where it has earned 41 stars from the community.

Dictionary interface adding key/value pairs field support. Maintained by gxvxc on GitHub, where it has earned 41 stars from the community.

Directus + Remix full-stack starter. Maintained by freekrai on GitHub, where it has earned 40 stars from the community.

A project worth exploring. Maintained by linefusion on GitHub, where it has earned 37 stars from the community.

Panels that will help any Directus admin. Maintained by Attacler on GitHub, where it has earned 36 stars from the community.

Manage your Paystack integration from your Directus application. Maintained by koredeycode on GitHub, where it has earned 36 stars from the community.

Interface for your UUID fields to attach file/image from media library, in JSON repeater for example. Maintained by stouch on GitHub, where it has earned 35 stars from the community.

Ice-cool Remix + Directus starter template. Maintained by tdsoftpl on GitHub, where it has earned 35 stars from the community.

Select a value from a SVG Map box. Maintained by dimitrov-adrian on GitHub, where it has earned 35 stars from the community.

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Cache and limit direct access to the data managed on your Directus instance, powered by Cloudflare Workers, Workers KV and Cloudflare Pages. Maintained by licitdev on GitHub, where it has earned 31 stars from the community.

Place your manual flows together in a convenient panel on your dashboard. Maintained by timio23 on GitHub, where it has earned 30 stars from the community.

Dart & Flutter library to communicate with a Directus REST API. Maintained by maxbritto on GitHub, where it has earned 30 stars from the community.

This is a custom interface for Directus that allows you to display result of your SQL queries in a table. Maintained by premieroctet on GitHub, where it has earned 30 stars from the community.

A collection of customizable hooks for Directus. Maintained by formfcw on GitHub, where it has earned 28 stars from the community.

Directus 9 extension that stores link metadata using Open Graph, JSON+LD, oEmbed or HTML metadata. Maintained by dimitrov-adrian on GitHub, where it has earned 28 stars from the community.

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Start a new webapp with fullstack typesafety, with Directus providing the database sdk to Nest & React/Svelte. Maintained by cesarsalesgomes on GitHub, where it has earned 27 stars from the community.

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Guide deploying Next.js and Directus fullstack app on VPS with simple CI/CD. Maintained by nomaddan on GitHub, where it has earned 27 stars from the community.

Directus NodeJS Project with Extensions Quickstart. Maintained by yohita on GitHub, where it has earned 26 stars from the community.

Native internal chat panel for communicating with other users from a dashboard. Maintained by timio23 on GitHub, where it has earned 26 stars from the community.

Advanced M2A interface for Directus with inline expandable editing, drag & drop sorting, and native save integration - no custom API calls needed. Maintained by smartlabsAT on GitHub, where it has earned 25 stars from the community.

A Python SDK for Directus. Maintained by reise69 on GitHub, where it has earned 25 stars from the community.

Quickstart for Directus / Next.js / Tailwind Css stack. Maintained by Calderis on GitHub, where it has earned 25 stars from the community.

A simple Directus 9 Interface Extension. Allows to scan and generate QR-Codes. Maintained by K3-Network on GitHub, where it has earned 24 stars from the community.

py-directus is a Python wrapper for asynchronous interaction with the Directus headless CMS API. It provides a convenient and easy-to-use interface for performing CRUD operations, querying data, and managing resources in Directus. Maintained by panos-stavrianos on GitHub, where it has earned 24 stars from the community.

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Documentation website for Directus, including quick starts, guides, and tutorials. Maintained by directus on GitHub, where it has earned 24 stars from the community.

Better input experience for currency. Maintained by rezo-labs on GitHub, where it has earned 23 stars from the community.

Show comments in the form. Maintained by rezo-labs on GitHub, where it has earned 23 stars from the community.

What is Directus?

Directus turns any SQL database into a headless CMS with a realtime API and admin app. This gallery lists 99 open-source projects built with Directus, most of them in DevTools, Dashboards and Templates, ranked by GitHub stars so the most-adopted repositories come first.

How projects are selected

Projects are public GitHub repositories found with the GitHub search query “topic:directus” and at least 10 stars. Each repository is checked against Directus’s languages and ecosystem before it is categorized, and stars, forks and last-commit dates come straight from the GitHub API, refreshed daily (current snapshot: October 6, 2026). Nothing here is paid placement.

Directus projects: FAQ

How many open-source Directus projects are listed?: 99 open-source projects built with Directus are listed, sourced from public GitHub repositories as of October 6, 2026.
What is the most-starred Directus project on GitHub?: agency-os by directus-labs leads with 965 GitHub stars (965), followed by directus-sync with 458.
What kinds of projects are built with Directus?: The largest category is DevTools, with 58 projects (59% of the gallery), followed by Dashboards with 8. Projects span 12 categories in total.
Which license do most Directus projects use?: MIT is the most common license, used by 34 of 99 projects (34%); GPL-3.0 is next with 28. 30 projects declare no recognized license.

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