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Aura vs Cocoa Touch (iOS): What are the differences?
Aura: Modern tools for modern applications. The Aura project centers around a collection of high-quality, well-tested, semantically versioned, standards-compliant, independent library packages that can be used in any codebase; Cocoa Touch (iOS): The Cocoa Touch collection of frameworks includes everything needed to create iOS apps. The Cocoa Touch layer contains key frameworks for building iOS apps. These frameworks define the appearance of your app. They also provide the basic app infrastructure and support for key technologies such as multitasking, touch-based input, push notifications, and many high-level system services.
Aura and Cocoa Touch (iOS) can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Aura is an open source tool with 2.99K GitHub stars and 269 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Aura's open source repository on GitHub.
Apple, Snapchat, and Third Iron are some of the popular companies that use Cocoa Touch (iOS), whereas Aura is used by Kivvik, Klubup, and RoundTable. Cocoa Touch (iOS) has a broader approval, being mentioned in 32 company stacks & 19 developers stacks; compared to Aura, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
Pros of Aura
- Open source1
Pros of Cocoa Touch (iOS)
- Backed by Apple6
- It's just awesome4
- User Friendly Performance2