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fastlane vs GitHub: What are the differences?
What is fastlane? Connect all iOS deployment tools into one streamlined workflow. fastlane lets you define and run your deployment pipelines for different environments. It helps you unify your app’s release process and automate the whole process. fastlane connects all fastlane tools and third party tools, like CocoaPods.
What is GitHub? Powerful collaboration, review, and code management for open source and private development projects. GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
fastlane can be classified as a tool in the "Mobile Continuous Integration" category, while GitHub is grouped under "Code Collaboration & Version Control".
Some of the features offered by fastlane are:
- Connect all build tools together
- Define multiple lanes for different needs
- Jenkins Integration
On the other hand, GitHub provides the following key features:
- Command Instructions
- Source Browser
- Git Powered Wikis
"Easy to use" is the primary reason why developers consider fastlane over the competitors, whereas "Open source friendly" was stated as the key factor in picking GitHub.
fastlane is an open source tool with 31.7K GitHub stars and 4.87K GitHub forks. Here's a link to fastlane's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, GitHub has a broader approval, being mentioned in 8899 company stacks & 149535 developers stacks; compared to fastlane, which is listed in 187 company stacks and 207 developer stacks.
Pros of fastlane
- Easy to use20
- Open Source13
- Itunes connect deployment13
- Incredible flexability11
- Third party integrations9
- Provisioning profile management3
- Certificate management3
- All in one iOS DevOps1
- Can be used for Android as well1
- Integrate anything with fastlane0
Pros of GitHub
- Open source friendly1.8K
- Easy source control1.5K
- Nice UI1.3K
- Great for team collaboration1.1K
- Easy setup868
- Issue tracker504
- Great community488
- Remote team collaboration483
- Great way to share449
- Pull request and features planning442
- Just works147
- Integrated in many tools132
- Free Public Repos122
- Github Gists116
- Github pages114
- Easy to find repos83
- Open source62
- Easy to find projects60
- It's free60
- Network effect56
- Extensive API49
- Organizations43
- Branching42
- Developer Profiles34
- Git Powered Wikis32
- Great for collaboration30
- It's fun24
- Clean interface and good integrations23
- Community SDK involvement22
- Learn from others source code20
- Because: Git16
- It integrates directly with Azure14
- Standard in Open Source collab10
- Newsfeed10
- Fast8
- Beautiful user experience8
- It integrates directly with Hipchat8
- Easy to discover new code libraries7
- It's awesome6
- Smooth integration6
- Cloud SCM6
- Nice API6
- Graphs6
- Integrations6
- Hands down best online Git service available5
- Reliable5
- Quick Onboarding5
- CI Integration5
- Remarkable uptime5
- Security options4
- Loved by developers4
- Uses GIT4
- Free HTML hosting4
- Easy to use and collaborate with others4
- Version Control4
- Simple but powerful4
- Unlimited Public Repos at no cost4
- Nice to use3
- IAM3
- Ci3
- Easy deployment via SSH3
- Free private repos2
- Good tools support2
- All in one development service2
- Never dethroned2
- Easy source control and everything is backed up2
- Issues tracker2
- Self Hosted2
- IAM integration2
- Very Easy to Use2
- Easy to use2
- Leads the copycats2
- Free HTML hostings2
- Easy and efficient maintainance of the projects2
- Beautiful2
- Dasf1
- Profound1
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Cons of fastlane
Cons of GitHub
- Owned by micrcosoft56
- Expensive for lone developers that want private repos38
- Relatively slow product/feature release cadence15
- API scoping could be better10
- Only 3 collaborators for private repos9
- Limited featureset for issue management4
- Does not have a graph for showing history like git lens3
- GitHub Packages does not support SNAPSHOT versions2
- Expensive1
- No multilingual interface1
- Horrible review comments tracking (absence)1
- Takes a long time to commit1
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