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Aura vs Grails: What are the differences?
Developers describe Aura as "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. On the other hand, Grails is detailed as "An Open Source, full stack, web application framework for the JVM". Grails is a framework used to build web applications with the Groovy programming language. The core framework is very extensible and there are numerous plugins available that provide easy integration of add-on features.
Aura and Grails can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Aura and Grails are both open source tools. It seems that Aura with 2.99K GitHub stars and 269 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Grails with 2.48K GitHub stars and 945 GitHub forks.
LinkedIn, PedidosYa, and TransferWise are some of the popular companies that use Grails, whereas Aura is used by Kivvik, PriceLizer, and Explee. Grails has a broader approval, being mentioned in 47 company stacks & 22 developers stacks; compared to Aura, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
Pros of Aura
- Open source1
Pros of Grails
- Groovy56
- Jvm40
- Rapid development38
- Gorm37
- Web framework30
- Open source25
- Plugins21
- Extensible17
- Easy17
- Dynamic14
- Clean architecture (Dependency Injection)6
- Gradle6
- Clear what everything does, lots of options5
- RAD4
- Agile4
- Great documentation4
- Android3
- Spring3
- Easy setup2
- Java web apps with steroid1
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Cons of Aura
Cons of Grails
- Frequent breaking changes3
- Undocumented features2