I think we could benefit from an additional category in the Cloudron supported applications: CMS (Content Management Systems). We also have Joomla on the way, Grav and Strapi is requested.

I've got a fair few apps in mind I can create data structures for to share the SQL dumps on GitLab as a quick way to develop apps for any stack based on standard accounting & ERP principles .

It's ideal for project managers for drafting app designs with data-schema best practice without getting hands dirty with SQL and the common user/roles/permissions/data-types stuff.

Let's say you want to build an app but the data-structure is a PITA to start from scratch, you can find any open source project with a crappy interface like these:

https://www.uzerp.com
https://www.gnucash.org
https://www.weberp.org

But generally they were built by geeks in their given subject focused on the data-structure.

People sniff at DOS interface ERP systems - but I assure you most of them are better designed data-structure than modern apps that are focused on the interface and marketing, when Computer Science was an academic profession and every query was optimised by design for the hardware of the day 30 years ago.

So, just import the SQL - and like magic you have a modern responsive material design Directus Admin for it with role-based permissions management and a rapid GraphQL API already done.

So it can be used as as a front-end or backend to fast-track building Apps based on existing FOSS projects that already have a mature SQL data structure but the custodians of it are still living in 1998 for ideas on friendly user interfaces on various devices.

Or, just build SQL data structures from scratch with a framework that should encourage best-practice in structural design and role-based permissions for collaboration a required.

I've pulled the entire data-structure of Xero via their API to GSheets and there really isn't much to it.

Or, all of this can be using it as a collaborative add-design briefing tool for the data side of things since interface design alone can't easily demonstrate the data relationships or hidden data requirements and anyone that can use a spreadsheet can use Directus faster than learning SQL.

I'll update this post with github links, code, etc once done.

Directus reminds me of what Rollbase was and could have been and I have been hunting high and low since for something like it.

Then when finding Directus I saw developers that just got this need. It's similar to Strapi.io in some ways - but the way that it can work with any existing DB and any DB created with it can be used in any other way is what truly appeals for openness and non-proprietary data-structure locking that is seemingly quite rare in a sector that usually pursues SaaS and vendor-locking through proprietary data structuring that would otherwise be expensive to move.

I see Directus as fast for modelling a relational database, as Cloudron is for modelling app infrastructure so certainly a kinship for the kind of things this community appreciates I'm sure. It was a random find for me from a Reddit comment so I don't think so well known but Cloudron has also introduced me to many other apps I might never have found otherwise, so the curation Cloudron and the community is gathering into the suite is certainly a valuable part of Cloudron's offering as a brand for these standards and open self-hosted and managed objectives.