Expressa
Content Management System for powering database driven websites using JSON schemas. Provides permission management and automatic REST APIs.
Active Last commit · 27 commits in the past 12 months
At a glance
- GitHub stars
- 452
- Last commit
- 2026-11-08
- Latest release
- 3.0.1
2026-11-08 - Commits (12 mo)
- 27
- Releases (12 mo)
- –
- License
- MIT
- Language / platform
- Nodejs
Maintenance health: Active
Last commit within the past 90 days. Last commit · 27 commits in the past 12 months.
How we label health: Active = last commit within 90 days, Maintained = within 12 months, Slowing = 12–24 months, Stale = over 24 months, Archived = read-only repository, Unknown = no data. Activity data from awesome-selfhosted-data (refreshed daily from GitHub).
Run Expressa yourself
- RAM: ~1 GB server (1 vCPU)
- Docker: not detected — install from source or packages
Estimated monthly server cost
| Provider | Plan size | ~ USD / month | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vultr | 1 GB | $5 | Deploy → |
| Akamai (Linode) | 1 GB | $5 | Deploy → |
| DigitalOcean | 1 GB | $6 | Deploy → |
Rough estimate from the app's stack and category, not a benchmark. Several light apps can share one server. Some hosting links may be affiliate links. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you; it never affects which apps we list.
Expressa is an alternative to
Related self-hosted apps
Apps that share the most categories with Expressa.
Strapi
Headless CMS that lets developers build content APIs fast while giving content creators a friendly editing interface.
Payload CMS
Developer-first headless CMS and application framework.
WordPress
World's most-used blogging and CMS engine.
Wagtail
Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience.
october
CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework.
KeystoneJS
CMS and web application platform.
Is this your project? Get it featured or send a correction upstream to awesome-selfhosted-data.