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API Platform vs Cocoa (OS X): What are the differences?

What is API Platform? REST and GraphQL framework to build modern API-first projects. It is a set of tools to build and consume web APIs. You can build a fully-featured hypermedia or GraphQL API in minutes. Leverage its awesome features to develop complex and high performance API-first projects. Extend or override everything you want.

What is Cocoa (OS X)? The Cocoa frameworks consist of libraries, APIs, and runtimes that form the development layer for all of OS X. Much of Cocoa is implemented in Objective-C, an object-oriented language that is compiled to run at incredible speed, yet employs a truly dynamic runtime making it uniquely flexible. Because Objective-C is a superset of C, it is easy to mix C and even C++ into your Cocoa applications.

API Platform and Cocoa (OS X) can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

Apple, Dropsource, and Increments are some of the popular companies that use Cocoa (OS X), whereas API Platform is used by Moovone, RVIP, and StadLine. Cocoa (OS X) has a broader approval, being mentioned in 8 company stacks & 22 developers stacks; compared to API Platform, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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Pros of API Platform
Pros of Cocoa (OS X)
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    Headless
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    Microframework
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    Symfony
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    Open source
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    Composer
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    Easy to use
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    Automated api-docs
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    Restful
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    Great community
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    IOS
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    Backed by apple

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Cons of API Platform
Cons of Cocoa (OS X)
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    Easy only for easy task like normal crud on entity
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    What is API Platform?

    It is a set of tools to build and consume web APIs. You can build a fully-featured hypermedia or GraphQL API in minutes. Leverage its awesome features to develop complex and high performance API-first projects. Extend or override everything you want.

    What is Cocoa (OS X)?

    Much of Cocoa is implemented in Objective-C, an object-oriented language that is compiled to run at incredible speed, yet employs a truly dynamic runtime making it uniquely flexible. Because Objective-C is a superset of C, it is easy to mix C and even C++ into your Cocoa applications.

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    What tools integrate with API Platform?
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    What are some alternatives to API Platform and Cocoa (OS X)?
    Laravel
    It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.
    Symfony
    It is written with speed and flexibility in mind. It allows developers to build better and easy to maintain websites with PHP..
    Lumen
    Laravel Lumen is a stunningly fast PHP micro-framework for building web applications with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Lumen attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as routing, database abstraction, queueing, and caching.
    Slim
    Slim is easy to use for both beginners and professionals. Slim favors cleanliness over terseness and common cases over edge cases. Its interface is simple, intuitive, and extensively documented — both online and in the code itself.
    Node.js
    Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
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