Because Strapi v4 is a major upgrade with a large number of breaking changes, upgrading a Strapi setup from v3 => v4 can be complicated. This post details how we undertook the v3 => v4 upgrade with a two-fold goal of upgrading without any functional / data regression in the smallest possible downtime window.

This post compares Directus and Strapi with respect to the various headless CMS features like customizing the CRUD APIs, content versioning, access control and internationalization.