Cocoa Touch (iOS) vs API Platform

Overview

Cocoa Touch (iOS)

Stacks202

Followers208

Votes12

API Platform

Stacks85

Followers128

Votes8

API Platform vs Cocoa Touch (iOS): What are the differences?

What is API Platform? REST and GraphQL framework to build modern API-first projects. It is a set of tools to build and consume web APIs. You can build a fully-featured hypermedia or GraphQL API in minutes. Leverage its awesome features to develop complex and high performance API-first projects. Extend or override everything you want.

What is Cocoa Touch (iOS)? The Cocoa Touch collection of frameworks includes everything needed to create iOS apps. The Cocoa Touch layer contains key frameworks for building iOS apps. These frameworks define the appearance of your app. They also provide the basic app infrastructure and support for key technologies such as multitasking, touch-based input, push notifications, and many high-level system services.

API Platform and Cocoa Touch (iOS) can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

Snapchat, Apple, and Third Iron are some of the popular companies that use Cocoa Touch (iOS), whereas API Platform is used by Moovone, RVIP, and StadLine. Cocoa Touch (iOS) has a broader approval, being mentioned in 45 company stacks & 99 developers stacks; compared to API Platform, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Cocoa Touch (iOS)	API Platform
The Cocoa Touch layer contains key frameworks for building iOS apps. These frameworks define the appearance of your app. They also provide the basic app infrastructure and support for key technologies such as multitasking, touch-based input, push notifications, and many high-level system services.	It is a set of tools to build and consume web APIs. You can build a fully-featured hypermedia or GraphQL API in minutes. Leverage its awesome features to develop complex and high performance API-first projects. Extend or override everything you want.
Statistics
Stacks 202	Stacks 85
Followers 208	Followers 128
Votes 12	Votes 8
Pros & Cons
Pros 6 Backed by Apple 4 It's just awesome 2 User Friendly Performance	Pros 1 Microframework 1 Open source 1 Symfony 1 Headless 1 Composer Cons 2 Easy only for easy task like normal crud on entity
Integrations
Objective-C Swift	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Cocoa Touch (iOS), API Platform?

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.

Rails

Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

Django

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Laravel

It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

.NET

.NET is a general purpose development platform. With .NET, you can use multiple languages, editors, and libraries to build native applications for web, mobile, desktop, gaming, and IoT for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and more.

ASP.NET Core

A free and open-source web framework, and higher performance than ASP.NET, developed by Microsoft and the community. It is a modular framework that runs on both the full .NET Framework, on Windows, and the cross-platform .NET Core.

Symfony

It is written with speed and flexibility in mind. It allows developers to build better and easy to maintain websites with PHP..

Spring

A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: Spring focuses on the "plumbing" of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments.

Spring Boot

Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run". We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration.