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Grape vs Tastypie: What are the differences?

Developers describe Grape as "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. On the other hand, Tastypie is detailed as "Creating delicious APIs for Django apps since 2010". Tastypie is a webservice API framework for Django. It provides a convenient, yet powerful and highly customizable abstraction for creating REST-style interfaces.

Grape and Tastypie belong to "Microframeworks (Backend)" category of the tech stack.

Grape and Tastypie are both open source tools. Grape with 8.87K GitHub stars and 1.09K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Tastypie with 3.54K GitHub stars and 1.12K GitHub forks.

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Pros of Grape
Pros of Tastypie
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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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    Good in Django
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    Fast development
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    Customizable

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Cons of Grape
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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 Tastypie?

    Tastypie is a webservice API framework for Django. It provides a convenient, yet powerful and highly customizable abstraction for creating REST-style interfaces.

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