Development & DevOps Software for Node.js
Ghost
Ghost is a free and open-source headless CMS and blogging platform developed by Ghost Foundation. With Ghost you can manage content in style, the user experience provided by the software is intuitive and encourages writing. Ghost is written in JavaScript for the Node.js platform and is released under the MIT license.
Directus
An open-source tool for managing content across all your omni-channel digital experiences. Directus is free and open-source headless CMS written in PHP, that takes a data first approach. Developers and content creators use Directus to manage content and generate a powerful API that can be used by any frontend technology. Directus can be self-hosted and is absolutely free.
Cockpit
Cockpit is a self-hosted headless and api-driven CMS. With Cockpit you can manage any structured content for your website, web app or mobile application. Cockpit's intuitive dashboard allow anyone to manage content without technical skills and is a perfect match for developers and teams looking to improve they content management situation. Cockpit allow you and your team to setup a content management system for static sites and JavaScript-based front-ends in no-time.
Strapi
Strapi is a free and open source headless CMS developed with JavaScript for Node.js. The software makes it really simple to generate REST and GraphQL APIs. Simply create your database schema and relationships in the Strapi admin panel UI, and Strapi will auto-generate API endpoints to represent the data structures provided. Strapi comes packed with features you come to expect from normal CMS's such as authentication, authorization, content management and a media library. The software can be used for free and can be self-hosted on any server and platform. Extra enterpise functionallity is currently being developed, and will be sold at cost.
TinaCMS
Tina is an open-source site editing toolkit and headless CMS for React-based sites like Gatsby & Next.js
RxDB
RxDB is short for Reactive Database and is a NoSQL-database for JavaScript Applications like Websites, hybrid Apps, Electron-Apps, Progressive Web Apps and NodeJs. Reactive means that you can not only query the current state, but subscribe to all state changes like the result of a query or even a single field of a document. This is great for UI-based realtime applications in way that makes it easy to develop and also has great performance benefits. To replicate data between your clients and server, RxDB provides modules for realtime replication with any CouchDB compliant endpoint and also with custom GraphQL endpoints.
Vapid
Vapid is a free and open-source CMS that takes the best of static site builders and introduces the ability to have a dashboard with almost no extra effort. As static site builders like Jekyll and Middleman offer a modern development environment but are for the most part difficult to share with folks who would like a dashboard to edit content. Vapid is designed to be an intentionally simple content management system built on the idea that you can create a custom dashboard without ever leaving the HTML.
WatermelonDB
WatermelonDB is a free and open-source database optimized for building complex applications in React and React Native. The goal of WatermelonDB is to provide real-world performance for apps that can scale from hundreds to tens of thousands of records and while remaining performant. Loading a full database into JavaScript can be expensive, WatermelonDB fixes this by being lazy as a default, and only loads data upon request.
