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Sails.js vs Spark Framework: 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; Spark Framework: A micro framework for creating web applications in Kotlin and Java 8 with minimal effort. It is a simple and expressive Java/Kotlin web framework DSL built for rapid development. Its intention is to provide an alternative for Kotlin/Java developers that want to develop their web applications as expressive as possible and with minimal boilerplate.

Sails.js and Spark Framework can be categorized as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.

Sails.js is an open source tool with 20.7K GitHub stars and 1.85K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Sails.js's open source repository on GitHub.

Redox Engine, HYPH, and LapNghiep are some of the popular companies that use Sails.js, whereas Spark Framework is used by Kasa Smart, AfricanStockPhoto, and Khartec ltd. Sails.js has a broader approval, being mentioned in 47 company stacks & 150 developers stacks; compared to Spark Framework, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

Decisions about Sails.js and Spark Framework
Juan José Aguililla Martínez
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HexagonHexagon
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I developed Hexagon heavily inspired in these great tools because of the following reasons:

  • Take full advantage of the Kotlin programming language without any strings attached to Java (as a language).
  • I wanted to be able to replace the HTTP server library used with different adapters (Jetty, Netty, etc.) and though right now there is only one, more are coming.
  • Have a complete tool to do full applications, though you can use other libraries, Hexagon comes with a dependency injection helper, settings loading from different sources and HTTP Client, so it comes with (batteries included).

Right now I'm using it for my pet projects, and I'm happy with it.

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Pros of Sails.js
Pros of Spark Framework
  • 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
  • 2
    Very easy to get up and running. Lovely API
  • 1
    Java
  • 1
    Native paralelization
  • 1
    Ideal for microservices
  • 1
    Fast
  • 1
    Easy

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Cons of Sails.js
Cons of Spark Framework
  • 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 Spark Framework?

    It is a simple and expressive Java/Kotlin web framework DSL built for rapid development. Its intention is to provide an alternative for Kotlin/Java developers that want to develop their web applications as expressive as possible and with minimal boilerplate.

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    What are some alternatives to Sails.js and Spark Framework?
    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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