Update: This was created before v9.0.0 of directus which changed the way
extensions are registered. The code here may still work on new versions, but
I'll still try to update it if I have time.
Directus is a good choice if you need to provide a simple CRUD dashboard for your project without having to build one yourself or shoehorning a CMS on top of the existing database.
Directus provides a lot of the stuff out of the box, and it can be configured through the ui and environment variables. In addition to that it can be further customized by using extensions. Currently directus doesn't support building hooks in typescript. In addition to that you have to manually restart directus server in order to see the changes you made to the exension.
This repository provides a webpack config that bundles extensions built in typescript and puts the outputs where directs would expect them to be and restarts the server after emitting the bundle. Only hooks example is available at the moment, but other extension types should be easily supported with a few tweaks to the webpack config and I might add them later.
The easiest way to run this example is by using docker-compose. Run the
following command to get the example up and running:
git clone git@github.com:AleksaC/directus-api-extensions-typescript.git
cd directus-api-extensions-typescript
cp example/.env.example example/.env
./bootstrap.sh