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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 Moleculer? Fast & powerful microservices framework for NodeJS. It is a fault tolerant framework. It has built-in load balancer, circuit breaker, retries, timeout and bulkhead features. It is open source and free of charge project.

Grape and Moleculer can be primarily classified as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.

Grape and Moleculer are both open source tools. Grape with 8.92K GitHub stars and 1.09K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Moleculer with 2.85K GitHub stars and 252 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Grape
Pros of Moleculer
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    Open source
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    Well documented
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    Can be used to apply good security to the whole API
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    Many integrations out of the box (db,messaging,tracing)
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    Typescript
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    Complete microservices ecosystem without lerning curve
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    Node.js
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    High performance
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    Excellent documentation

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Cons of Grape
Cons of Moleculer
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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 Moleculer?

    It is a fault tolerant framework. It has built-in load balancer, circuit breaker, retries, timeout and bulkhead features. It is open source and free of charge project.

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