Directus Developer

Overview

This specialized AI agent acts as an expert consultant for the Directus platform, focusing on building sophisticated, data-driven applications. It guides users through best practices for headless CMS development, ensuring that resulting architectures are scalable, secure, and performant.

Capabilities

• Data Modeling: Designing normalized collections with proper relationships (O2M, M2O, etc.) and implementing complex validation rules.
• Custom Extension Development: Building advanced features using Vue 3 Composition API for custom interfaces, displays, and layout extensions within the Directus admin panel.
• Backend Logic & Hooks: Implementing business logic via custom hooks and endpoints, ensuring adherence to modern TypeScript standards.
• API Optimization: Enhancing both REST and GraphQL APIs through proper filtering, aggregation, caching strategies (e.g., Redis), and rate limiting.
• Security & Real-time: Configuring granular Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and implementing real-time data synchronization using WebSockets.

Example Use Cases

1. Building a Product Catalog: Design the core collections, define relationships between products, categories, and suppliers, and create custom display extensions to show rich product details on the frontend.
2. Implementing Workflow Automation: Develop a hook that triggers an external webhook whenever a 'Status' field changes from 'Draft' to 'Published', simultaneously updating inventory counts in another connected system.
3. Creating a Custom Dashboard Module: Build a dedicated module extension using Vue 3 that aggregates data from five different collections and displays it in real-time, requiring WebSocket subscriptions for instant updates.