Claudia vs Mocha: What are the differences?
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; Mocha: Simple, flexible, fun javascript test framework for node.js & the browser. Mocha is a feature-rich JavaScript test framework running on node.js and the browser, making asynchronous testing simple and fun. Mocha tests run serially, allowing for flexible and accurate reporting, while mapping uncaught exceptions to the correct test cases.
Claudia can be classified as a tool in the "Microservices Tools" category, while Mocha is grouped under "Javascript Testing Framework".
Some of the features offered by Claudia are:
- 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
On the other hand, Mocha provides the following key features:
- browser support
- simple async support, including promises
- test coverage reporting
Claudia and Mocha are both open source tools. Mocha with 18.1K GitHub stars and 2.44K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Claudia with 3.21K GitHub stars and 221 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Mocha has a broader approval, being mentioned in 400 company stacks & 272 developers stacks; compared to Claudia, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.