goa vs seneca: What are the differences?

goa: A design driven approach for building microservices in Go. goa is a framework for building microservices in Go using a unique design-first approach. goa provides a novel approach for developing microservices that saves time when working on independent services and helps with keeping the overall system consistent; seneca: A Micro-Services toolkit for Node.js. Seneca is a toolkit for organizing the business logic of your app. You can break down your app into "stuff that happens", rather than focusing on data models or managing dependencies.

goa and seneca belong to "Microservices Tools" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by goa are:

• Creating a service with goa starts with the design. The goa DSL lets you describe the global properties, types and endpoints that make up the service API. The apidsl package docs provides a quick reference to all the DSL functions.
• Once the design of the API is in place goagen generates the corresponding data structures, validation code and handlers. Handlers are defined as interface methods. Implementing the service is thus as simple as implementing the generated interfaces.
• The best part about the goa DSL is that the engine is completely decoupled. Plugins can implement custom DSLs to extend the concepts described in the design. Plugins can also generate arbitrary outputs.

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

• pattern matching: a wonderfully flexible way to handle business requirements
• transport independence: how messages get to the right server is not something you should have to worry about
• maturity: 5 years in production (before we called it micro-services), but was once taken out by lightning

goa and seneca are both open source tools. goa with 3.46K GitHub stars and 389 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than seneca with 3 GitHub stars and 1 GitHub forks.