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  5. Babel vs Claudia

Babel vs Claudia

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Overview

Babel
Babel
Stacks27.3K
Followers11.0K
Votes391
GitHub Stars43.8K
Forks5.8K
Claudia
Claudia
Stacks29
Followers55
Votes2
GitHub Stars3.9K
Forks277

Babel vs Claudia: What are the differences?

Babel: Use next generation JavaScript, today. Babel will turn your ES6+ code into ES5 friendly code, so you can start using it right now without waiting for browser support; Claudia: Deploy Node.js microservices to AWS Lambda and API Gateway easily. Claudia helps you deploy Node.js microservices to Amazon Web Services easily. It automates and simplifies deployment workflows and error prone tasks, so you can focus on important problems and not have to worry about AWS service quirks.

Babel belongs to "JavaScript Compilers" category of the tech stack, while Claudia can be primarily classified under "Microservices Tools".

Some of the features offered by Babel are:

  • Array comprehensions
  • Arrow functions
  • Async functions

On the other hand, Claudia provides the following key features:

  • Create or update Lambda functions and Web APIs from Node.js projects hassle-free
  • Automatically configure the Lambda function for commonly useful tasks
  • Automatically set up API Gateway resources the way Javascript developers expect them to work

Babel and Claudia are both open source tools. Babel with 33.8K GitHub stars and 3.6K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Claudia with 3.21K GitHub stars and 221 GitHub forks.

Instagram, 9GAG, and Intuit are some of the popular companies that use Babel, whereas Claudia is used by TOKENEXT, Surdo para Surdo, and FundsCorner. Babel has a broader approval, being mentioned in 902 company stacks & 688 developers stacks; compared to Claudia, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Babel
Babel
Claudia
Claudia

Babel will turn your ES6+ code into ES5 friendly code, so you can start using it right now without waiting for browser support.

Claudia helps you deploy Node.js microservices to Amazon Web Services easily. It automates and simplifies deployment workflows and error prone tasks, so you can focus on important problems and not have to worry about AWS service quirks.

Array comprehensions; Arrow functions; Async functions; Async generator functions; Classes; Class properties; Computed property names; Constants; Decorators; Default parameters; Destructuring; Exponentiation operator; For-of; Generators; Generator comprehensions; Let scoping; Modules; Module export extensions; Object rest/spread; Property method assignment; Property name shorthand; Rest parameters; React; Spread; Tail call optimisation; Template literals; Type annotations; Unicode regex; JSX; React; Flow; Node.js; Meteor; Rails; Broccoli; Browserify; Require.js; Brunch; Duo; Gobble; Grunt; Gulp; Make; Webpack; Connect; Jade; Jest; Karma; Mocha; Nodemon
Create or update Lambda functions and Web APIs from Node.js projects hassle-free;Automatically configure the Lambda function for commonly useful tasks;Automatically set up API Gateway resources the way Javascript developers expect them to work
Statistics
GitHub Stars
43.8K
GitHub Stars
3.9K
GitHub Forks
5.8K
GitHub Forks
277
Stacks
27.3K
Stacks
29
Followers
11.0K
Followers
55
Votes
391
Votes
2
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 165
    Modern Javascript works with all browsers
  • 77
    Open source
  • 60
    Integration with lots of tools
  • 56
    Easy setup
  • 26
    Very active on github
Pros
  • 2
    Easy setup
Integrations
Grunt
Grunt
Broccoli
Broccoli
Browserify
Browserify
Brunch
Brunch
Duo
Duo
gulp
gulp
RequireJS
RequireJS
Node.js
Node.js
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Amazon API Gateway
Amazon API Gateway

What are some alternatives to Babel, Claudia?

Istio

Istio

Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform, such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.

Azure Service Fabric

Azure Service Fabric

Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices. Service Fabric addresses the significant challenges in developing and managing cloud apps.

Moleculer

Moleculer

It is a fault tolerant framework. It has built-in load balancer, circuit breaker, retries, timeout and bulkhead features. It is open source and free of charge project.

Express Gateway

Express Gateway

A cloud-native microservices gateway completely configurable and extensible through JavaScript/Node.js built for ALL platforms and languages. Enterprise features are FREE thanks to the power of 3K+ ExpressJS battle hardened modules.

ArangoDB Foxx

ArangoDB Foxx

It is a JavaScript framework for writing data-centric HTTP microservices that run directly inside of ArangoDB.

Dapr

Dapr

It is a portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, stateless and stateful microservices that run on the cloud and edge and embraces the diversity of languages and developer frameworks.

Zuul

Zuul

It is the front door for all requests from devices and websites to the backend of the Netflix streaming application. As an edge service application, It is built to enable dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, and security. Routing is an integral part of a microservice architecture.

linkerd

linkerd

linkerd is an out-of-process network stack for microservices. It functions as a transparent RPC proxy, handling everything needed to make inter-service RPC safe and sane--including load-balancing, service discovery, instrumentation, and routing.

Jersey

Jersey

It is open source, production quality, framework for developing RESTful Web Services in Java that provides support for JAX-RS APIs and serves as a JAX-RS (JSR 311 & JSR 339) Reference Implementation. It provides it’s own API that extend the JAX-RS toolkit with additional features and utilities to further simplify RESTful service and client development.

Ocelot

Ocelot

It is aimed at people using .NET running a micro services / service oriented architecture that need a unified point of entry into their system. However it will work with anything that speaks HTTP and run on any platform that ASP.NET Core supports. It manipulates the HttpRequest object into a state specified by its configuration until it reaches a request builder middleware where it creates a HttpRequestMessage object which is used to make a request to a downstream service.

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