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.
Trails is a tool in the Microframeworks (Backend) category of a tech stack.
Trails is an open source tool with 1.7K GitHub stars and 72 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Trails's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Trails?
Companies
Developers
12 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Trails.
Trails Integrations
Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, ES6, and Webpack are some of the popular tools that integrate with Trails. Here's a list of all 17 tools that integrate with Trails.
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Trails's Features
- Modern & concise
- Hyper-modular & un-opinionated
- Community Driven
Trails Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Trails?
ExpressJS
Express is a minimal and flexible node.js web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
Flask
Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.
Django REST framework
It is a powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.
Sinatra
Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.
Koa
Koa aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs. Through leveraging generators Koa allows you to ditch callbacks and greatly increase error-handling. Koa does not bundle any middleware.
