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Unifrost vs DummyAPI: What are the differences?
Developers describe Unifrost as "Stream PubSub Messages to the Browser". It is a go module for relaying pubsub messages to the web via SSE(Eventsource). It is based on Twitter's implementation for real-time event-streaming in their new web app. On the other hand, DummyAPI is detailed as "Simple API service with Dummy data, for demos/learning/mocking". Dummyapi is free to use API with generated fake data. A bulk of models will cover all your needs for Mocking UI / Discovering new Interactions / Learning new technologies. Huge amount of data: user profiles, posts, images, comments, etc.
Unifrost and DummyAPI can be primarily classified as "Realtime Backend / API" tools.
Some of the features offered by Unifrost are:
- Supports Go modules
- Uses Server-Sent-Events
- Can be embedded in your api server
On the other hand, DummyAPI provides the following key features:
- Non-auth - a bulk of routes that provide you with data without any authorization process
- Auth - you can use data routes with authorization, can be useful for skill evaluation
- 24/7 access - Full-time access to API, make it simple to use for a demo page or presentations of your tools/library etc.
Data Relations - Complex data structure with a different relation type
Unifrost is an open source tool with 156 GitHub stars and 8 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Unifrost's open source repository on GitHub.