In practice, turning Directus into the backbone of a production backend takes a fair amount of setup before a project becomes productive. Projen, a project scaffolding and automation framework, can automate that plumbing, so the time the tech teams 'd otherwise need to spend wiring Dockerfiles and build pipelines together goes into writing product and business logic instead.
@wbce/projen-d9 is the projen template we built to automate that plumbing around directus. By default it targets d9 (directus version 9), but you can adapt it to whichever Directus version you actually run. You can also customize it further to fit whatever your team needs. This post walks through what it generates and why.
d9 is a GPL fork of Directus v9 we maintain on GitHub. It does what Directus 9 did: an open-source (GPL-3 license) CMS that, with the right discipline, can stand in for a full custom backend (API, admin UI, permissions, schema), with business logic added as extensions (hooks, endpoints, operations, custom UI panels).
Bootstrap a new project
npx projen new --from @wbce/projen-d9
