My use case is a little different than yours, so I don't have a tutorial, but Directus shouldn't be terribly hard to integrate with a JAM website.

I'm currently using it as a source for a static website using Elder.js. Elder.js isn't a JAM - it's a static site generator - but it works kinda similarly. Directus works wonderfully for it.

In most of the JAM stacks, there is a point for fetching data, and at that point (assuming your using Node.js here), you just use axios to call the endpoints that Directus exposes. When you want to create user accounts or whatnot, you make an API call to Directus.

I don't know how well Directus would stand up to a busy traffic website performance wise, but I'm pretty sure it would do a great job for a low-to-moderate traffic website. It might be a good thing to ask them on their Discord, they are very friendly.

A good way to picture Directus is that it's a nice frontend to an SQL database. So a lot of the things you'd care about with a regular database will matter with Directus. It's not going to automatically manage the accounts for you - but it's not hard to create a collection called 'Website Users' and just add a user account when someone registers on your site, and then verify it when they log in, managing the cookie or token appropriately.

This of course means it isn't 'low-code', but it isn't 'that's a ton of code' either. (As a note, if your going for posts and logins and the likes, I'd stick with JAM, and stay away from static site generators - static site generators are really built for sites that don't have live content, not that you can't fenagle your way around it, but it's not what they are built for).

If your looking for a bit more automation then that for logins... there's a few other frameworks that have built in libraries for user authentication, but the only one I remember really standing out as being 'easy' was Meteor (using their old UI framework called 'Blaze'). But Meteor is pretty different from Directus, and it's very opinionated, and usually requires a heavier server. Might not be what you are looking for.

One thing I will warn you on Directus... sometimes, major version upgrades (think 8.?.? -> 9.0.0) don't work quite as planned (at least in my experience). So if you see they are going to put out a new major version soon, it might be worth holding out until they do. Just my personal experience though.

Best of luck with your project!

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