Directus : stable? usage?

[atrilahiji]

@timconsidine Ah I see, I'm glad it worked! Yeah I actually just re-did my blog using directus9 and Gridsome (Gatsby but with Vue instead of React): https://git.atrilahiji.dev/atrilahiji/personal-site

[timconsidine]

@atrilahiji Nice

I'm currently committed to Hugo as static site engine.
But will certainly consider how to use Directus with it later.
And learn about gatsby/gridsome - they seem popular.

But for now a more pressing project.
Build front-end website which allows users to buy "tickets" for an event, capturing their data and their choice of event selections, storing the choices and user info in Directus table for later processing.

This could all be done with a regular form or poll or survey app, but I want the data stored in a way it can be checked, assessed and acted on, not just get a form response by traditional email, which would then loading in a database.

I hope this is a suitable use case for Directus, even though it's not the regular headless CMS use case.

[atrilahiji]

@timconsidine I think it would be. Directus is generic enough I would think. Rather than being specifically focused on posts or blog content it is more so just an API wrapper over an SQL DB.

[robi]

@timconsidine
This seems like a better job for EspoCRM.

[timconsidine]

@robi Yes, EspoCRM is an option.

But I have only used their web-to-lead capture, which doesn't seem suitable, even with adding custom fields. I'm thinking that I would need to create a new Entity, and I have not yet checked how their API supports accessing a custom entity. Have you worked with their API much ?

[robi]

@timconsidine No, but @marcusquinn has

[marcusquinn]

@timconsidine Yeah, it really couldn't be simpler - best recommendation is to try it - I've been working with it since the beginning of the year and very happy with it all.

You don't need any of the paid add-ons, although the advanced pack is nice if you want to automate later but it's all fully functional, unrestricted, and well worth learning.

[timconsidine]

@marcusquinn thank you
Are you using PHP to access the API ?

[marcusquinn]

@timconsidine At the moment only Integromat integrations but, if you're taking web frontends then any JAMstack framework should work. I intend to setup a prototype with perhaps Gatsby at some point. Depends on your objectives but a search for JAMstack themes or JAMstack dashboards might give you some ideas.

[atrilahiji]

This is a good resource: https://jamstackthemes.dev/