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Stargate vs MirageJS: What are the differences?
Stargate: An open source API framework for data *. It is a data gateway deployed between client applications and a database. It's built with extensibility as a first-class citizen and makes it easy to use a database for any application workload by adding plugin support for new APIs, data types, and access methods; *MirageJS:** Build complete frontend features, even if your API doesn't exist. It is an API mocking library that lets you build, test and share a complete working JavaScript application without having to rely on any backend services.
Stargate and MirageJS belong to "API Tools" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Stargate are:
- API Services
- Persistence Services
- Authentication Services
On the other hand, MirageJS provides the following key features:
- API mocking
- ORM
- Unit tests
MirageJS is an open source tool with 3.22K GitHub stars and 95 GitHub forks. Here's a link to MirageJS's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of MirageJS
- Easy to use1
- Can be run only in browser1













