Bootsnap vs Turbolinks

Overview

Turbolinks

Stacks138

Followers24

Votes2

GitHub Stars12.7K

Forks615

Bootsnap

Stacks449

Followers26

Votes0

Bootsnap vs Turbolinks: What are the differences?

Developers describe Bootsnap as "Boot large ruby/rails apps faster, by Shopify". Bootsnap is a library that plugs into a number of Ruby and (optionally) ActiveSupport and YAML methods to optimize and cache expensive computations. On the other hand, Turbolinks is detailed as "Makes navigating your web application faster". Turbolinks makes navigating your web application faster. Get the performance benefits of a single-page application without the added complexity of a client-side JavaScript framework. Use HTML to render your views on the server side and link.

Bootsnap and Turbolinks belong to "Ruby Utilities" category of the tech stack.

Bootsnap and Turbolinks are both open source tools. Turbolinks with 8.55K GitHub stars and 490 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Bootsnap with 2.15K GitHub stars and 109 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

Turbolinks	Bootsnap
Turbolinks makes navigating your web application faster. Get the performance benefits of a single-page application without the added complexity of a client-side JavaScript framework. Use HTML to render your views on the server side and link	Bootsnap is a library that plugs into a number of Ruby and (optionally) ActiveSupport and YAML methods to optimize and cache expensive computations.
Optimizes navigation automatically; No server-side cooperation necessary; Supports mobile apps	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars 12.7K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 615	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 138	Stacks 449
Followers 24	Followers 26
Votes 2	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 1 Drop in 1 Minimal setup required Cons 1 Not a big community	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Rails	Ruby Rails

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