1. make sure you have nodejs and npm installed
2. npm init directus-project <directory> <-- flow the wizard
3. npx directus bootstrap <- in case you need demo tables and boilerplate

1. npx directus start

Default User: [email protected] Xjv2XCKnxwXV

you can visit the following route /admin/settings/project to change the following settings

1. Project Name
2. Project Description
3. Project URL
4. Default Language
5. Brandings and Styling
6. Custom CSS via Code
7. Change Order/Location of pages on dashboard
8. Security
9. Files and Storage
10. Mappings for access tokens
11. Image Editor Settings

you can visit /admin/settings/data-model to manage the collections / tables you can visit /admin/settings/roles to manage the user roles you can visit /admin/settings/presets to manage the bookmarks you can visit /admin/settings/translations to manage custom translations you can visit /admin/settings/webhooks to manage the webhooks you can visit /admin/settings/flows to manage the flows you can visit /admin/insights to manage the insights and analytics you can visit /admin/files to manage the files you can visit /admin/users to manage the users you can visit /admin/content to manage the database/tables

npx directus database migrate:latest
npx directus database migrate:up
npx directus database migrate:down

Database install

npx directus database install

more at: https://docs.directus.io/self-hosted/cli.html

https://docs.directus.io/extensions/introduction.html