Sails.js vs Falcon

Overview

Sails.js

Stacks337

Followers511

Votes296

GitHub Stars22.9K

Forks1.9K

Falcon

Stacks84

Followers201

Votes89

Falcon vs Sails.js: What are the differences?

What is Falcon? High-performance Python framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends. Falcon is a minimalist WSGI library for building speedy web APIs and app backends. We like to think of Falcon as the Dieter Rams of web frameworks.

What is 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.

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

"Python" is the top reason why over 7 developers like Falcon, while over 41 developers mention "Data-driven apis " as the leading cause for choosing Sails.js.

Falcon and Sails.js are both open source tools. Sails.js with 20.7K GitHub stars and 1.85K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Falcon with 6.8K GitHub stars and 707 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Sails.js has a broader approval, being mentioned in 32 company stacks & 13 developers stacks; compared to Falcon, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Sails.js	Falcon
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.	Falcon is a minimalist WSGI library for building speedy web APIs and app backends. We like to think of Falcon as the Dieter Rams of web frameworks.
-	Intuitive routing via URI templates and resource classes;Easy access to headers and bodies through request and response classes;Idiomatic HTTP error responses via a handy exception base class;DRY request processing using global, resource, and method hooks;Snappy unit testing through WSGI helpers and mocks;20% speed boost when Cython is available;Python 2.6, Python 2.7, PyPy and Python 3.3/3.4 support
Statistics
GitHub Stars 22.9K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 1.9K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 337	Stacks 84
Followers 511	Followers 201
Votes 296	Votes 89
Pros & Cons
Pros 49 Data-driven apis 47 Waterline ORM 37 Mvc 32 Easy rest 25 Real-time Cons 5 Waterline ORM 4 Defaults to VueJS 0 Standard MVC	Pros 13 Python 11 FAST 10 Minimal 8 REST oriented 8 Open source
Integrations
Grunt Node.js MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB Socket.IO ExpressJS	Python

What are some alternatives to Sails.js, Falcon?

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.

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.

Lumen

Laravel Lumen is a stunningly fast PHP micro-framework for building web applications with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Lumen attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as routing, database abstraction, queueing, and caching.

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.

Fastify

Fastify is a web framework highly focused on speed and low overhead. It is inspired from Hapi and Express and as far as we know, it is one of the fastest web frameworks in town. Use Fastify can increase your throughput up to 100%.

hapi

hapi is a simple to use configuration-centric framework with built-in support for input validation, caching, authentication, and other essential facilities for building web applications and services.

TypeORM

It supports both Active Record and Data Mapper patterns, unlike all other JavaScript ORMs currently in existence, which means you can write high quality, loosely coupled, scalable, maintainable applications the most productive way.

FeathersJS

Feathers is a real-time, micro-service web framework for NodeJS that gives you control over your data via RESTful resources, sockets and flexible plug-ins.