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Stacks432

Followers455

+ 1

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Grape vs hapi: What are the differences?

What is Grape? An opinionated micro-framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby. Grape is a REST-like API micro-framework for Ruby. It's designed to run on Rack or complement existing web application frameworks such as Rails and Sinatra by providing a simple DSL to easily develop RESTful APIs. It has built-in support for common conventions, including multiple formats, subdomain/prefix restriction, content negotiation, versioning and much more.

What is hapi? Server Framework for Node.js. hapi is a simple to use configuration-centric framework with built-in support for input validation, caching, authentication, and other essential facilities for building web applications and services.

Grape and hapi can be categorized as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.

"Well documented" is the top reason why over 3 developers like Grape, while over 23 developers mention "Makes me Hapi making REST APIs" as the leading cause for choosing hapi.

Grape and hapi are both open source tools. It seems that hapi with 11.3K GitHub stars and 1.16K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Grape with 8.87K GitHub stars and 1.09K GitHub forks.

Hazeorid, Kanteron Systems, and Slickage Studios are some of the popular companies that use hapi, whereas Grape is used by DivShot, TaxJar, and Master Of Code Global. hapi has a broader approval, being mentioned in 58 company stacks & 34 developers stacks; compared to Grape, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

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Open source
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Well documented
2
Can be used to apply good security to the whole API

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Makes me Hapi making REST APIs
14
Simpler than other REST libraries
14
Configuration
13
Quality Driven Ecosystem
13
Modularization
5
Easy testability
1
Better validation
0
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Code structure makes reuse difficult

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What is Grape?

Grape is a REST-like API micro-framework for Ruby. It's designed to run on Rack or complement existing web application frameworks such as Rails and Sinatra by providing a simple DSL to easily develop RESTful APIs. It has built-in support for common conventions, including multiple formats, subdomain/prefix restriction, content negotiation, versioning and much more.

What is hapi?

hapi is a simple to use configuration-centric framework with built-in support for input validation, caching, authentication, and other essential facilities for building web applications and services.

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What are some alternatives to Grape and hapi?

Red

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Rails API

Rails::API is a subset of a normal Rails application, created for applications that don't require all functionality that a complete Rails application provides. It is a bit more lightweight, and consequently a bit faster than a normal Rails application. The main example for its usage is in API applications only, where you usually don't need the entire Rails middleware stack nor template generation.

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

Node.js

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

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