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Grape vs Moleculer: 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 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.
Pros of Grape
- Open source4
- Well documented4
- Can be used to apply good security to the whole API2
Pros of Moleculer
- Many integrations out of the box (db,messaging,tracing)3
- Typescript3
- Complete microservices ecosystem without lerning curve3
- Node.js2
- High performance2
- Excellent documentation1
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Cons of Grape
- Code structure makes reuse difficult1