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Sails.js vs Slim: What are the differences?

Sails.js: Realtime MVC Framework for Node.js. Sails is designed to mimic the MVC pattern of frameworks like Ruby on Rails, but with support for the requirements of modern apps: data-driven APIs with scalable, service-oriented architecture; Slim: A PHP micro framework. Slim is easy to use for both beginners and professionals. Slim favors cleanliness over terseness and common cases over edge cases. Its interface is simple, intuitive, and extensively documented — both online and in the code itself.

Sails.js and Slim can be primarily classified as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.

"Data-driven apis " is the primary reason why developers consider Sails.js over the competitors, whereas "Microframework" was stated as the key factor in picking Slim.

Sails.js and Slim are both open source tools. It seems that Sails.js with 20.6K GitHub stars and 1.85K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Slim with 9.92K GitHub stars and 1.84K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Slim has a broader approval, being mentioned in 26 company stacks & 19 developers stacks; compared to Sails.js, which is listed in 32 company stacks and 12 developer stacks.

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Pros of Sails.js
Pros of Slim
  • 49
    Data-driven apis
  • 47
    Waterline ORM
  • 37
    Mvc
  • 32
    Easy rest
  • 25
    Real-time
  • 21
    Open source
  • 19
    Service-oriented architecture
  • 18
    Scalable
  • 10
    Convension over configuration
  • 9
    Rails-like asset pipeline
  • 9
    Node machines and machinepacks
  • 7
    Easy route/controller generation
  • 6
    Ruby on Rails basic stuff for JS devs
  • 3
    CLI for scaffolding project pieces
  • 3
    WebSocket support
  • 1
    Supportive community
  • 33
    Microframework
  • 27
    API
  • 22
    Open source
  • 21
    Php
  • 11
    Fast
  • 8
    Restful & fast framework
  • 7
    Easy Setup, Great Documentation
  • 5
    Modular
  • 5
    Clear and straightforward
  • 5
    Good document to upgrade from previous version
  • 4
    Dependency injection
  • 2
    Composer
  • 2
    Easy to learn

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Cons of Sails.js
Cons of Slim
  • 5
    Waterline ORM
  • 4
    Defaults to VueJS
  • 0
    Standard MVC
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    What is Sails.js?

    Sails is designed to mimic the MVC pattern of frameworks like Ruby on Rails, but with support for the requirements of modern apps: data-driven APIs with scalable, service-oriented architecture.

    What is Slim?

    Slim is easy to use for both beginners and professionals. Slim favors cleanliness over terseness and common cases over edge cases. Its interface is simple, intuitive, and extensively documented — both online and in the code itself.

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    What are some alternatives to Sails.js and Slim?
    Django
    Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
    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.
    HTML5
    HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
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