Play vs API Platform

Overview

Play

Stacks752

Followers609

Votes496

GitHub Stars12.6K

Forks4.1K

API Platform

Stacks85

Followers128

Votes8

API Platform vs Play: What are the differences?

Developers describe API Platform as "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. On the other hand, Play is detailed as "The High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala". Play Framework makes it easy to build web applications with Java & Scala. Play is based on a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly architecture. Built on Akka, Play provides predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications.

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

Play is an open source tool with 11.3K GitHub stars and 3.78K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Play's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Play has a broader approval, being mentioned in 157 company stacks & 252 developers stacks; compared to API Platform, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Play	API Platform
Play Framework makes it easy to build web applications with Java & Scala. Play is based on a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly architecture. Built on Akka, Play provides predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications.	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
GitHub Stars 12.6K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 4.1K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 752	Stacks 85
Followers 609	Followers 128
Votes 496	Votes 8
Pros & Cons
Pros 81 Scala 55 Web-friendly architecture 55 Built on akka 50 Stateless 47 High-scalable Cons 3 Evolves fast, keep up with releases 1 Unnecessarily complicated	Pros 1 Headless 1 Symfony 1 Open source 1 Composer 1 Easy to use Cons 2 Easy only for easy task like normal crud on entity

What are some alternatives to Play, 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.