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Grails vs Hoodie: What are the differences?
What is Grails? An Open Source, full stack, web application framework for the JVM. Grails is a framework used to build web applications with the Groovy programming language. The core framework is very extensible and there are numerous plugins available that provide easy integration of add-on features.
What is Hoodie? A fast offline-first architecture for webapps. Super-simple user management & storage. Great for mobile. We want to enable you to build complete web apps in days, without having to worry about backends, databases or servers, all with an open source library that's as simple to use as jQuery.
Grails and Hoodie can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
"Groovy" is the top reason why over 44 developers like Grails, while over 3 developers mention "JSON" as the leading cause for choosing Hoodie.
Grails and Hoodie are both open source tools. Hoodie with 3.51K GitHub stars and 314 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Grails with 2.48K GitHub stars and 945 GitHub forks.
Pros of Grails
- Groovy56
- Jvm40
- Rapid development38
- Gorm37
- Web framework30
- Open source25
- Plugins21
- Extensible17
- Easy17
- Dynamic14
- Clean architecture (Dependency Injection)6
- Gradle6
- Clear what everything does, lots of options5
- RAD4
- Agile4
- Great documentation4
- Android3
- Spring3
- Easy setup2
- Java web apps with steroid1
Pros of Hoodie
- Reduces boilerplate4
- JSON4
- Offline first3
- Open source2
- Mobile friendly2
- Good use of the great couchDb and offline first1
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Cons of Grails
- Frequent breaking changes3
- Undocumented features2