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Hug vs Trails: What are the differences?

Developers describe Hug as "New Python REST API and CLI micro-framework". Hug aims to make developing Python driven APIs as simple as possible, but no simpler. As a result, it drastically simplifies Python API development. On the other hand, Trails is detailed as "Modern Web Application Framework for Node.js". Trails is a modern, community-driven web application framework for node.js. It builds on the pedigree of Rails and Grails to accelerate development by adhering to a straightforward, convention-based, API-driven design philosophy.

Hug and Trails can be categorized as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.

"Simple" is the top reason why over 3 developers like Hug, while over 7 developers mention "Easy setup and usage" as the leading cause for choosing Trails.

Hug and Trails are both open source tools. It seems that Hug with 5.8K GitHub stars and 344 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Trails with 1.72K GitHub stars and 75 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Hug
Pros of Trails
  • 4
    Simple
  • 2
    Self documenting
  • 2
    REST
  • 2
    Fast
  • 2
    Elegant
  • 8
    Easy setup and usage
  • 7
    ES2015
  • 6
    Extensible
  • 6
    Modular
  • 6
    Open-source
  • 5
    Fast
  • 5
    Lightweight
  • 4
    Scalable
  • 2
    All that you need, without what you don’t
  • 1
    ES6/ES7

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What is Hug?

Hug aims to make developing Python driven APIs as simple as possible, but no simpler. As a result, it drastically simplifies Python API development.

What is Trails?

Trails is a modern, community-driven web application framework for node.js. It builds on the pedigree of Rails and Grails to accelerate development by adhering to a straightforward, convention-based, API-driven design philosophy.

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Jobs that mention Hug and Trails as a desired skillset
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What are some alternatives to Hug and Trails?
Flask
Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.
Falcon
Falcon is a minimalist WSGI library for building speedy web APIs and app backends. We like to think of Falcon as the Dieter Rams of web frameworks.
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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