Fastify vs Sinatra

Overview

Sinatra

Stacks1.1K

Followers502

Votes212

GitHub Stars12.4K

Forks2.1K

Fastify

Stacks506

Followers523

Votes95

GitHub Stars34.9K

Forks2.5K

Fastify vs Sinatra: What are the differences?

Fastify: Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js. 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%; Sinatra: Classy web-development dressed in a DSL. Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.

Fastify and Sinatra can be primarily classified as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.

Fastify and Sinatra are both open source tools. It seems that Fastify with 11.2K GitHub stars and 690 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Sinatra with 10.6K GitHub stars and 1.9K GitHub forks.

Product Hunt, thoughtbot, and 500px are some of the popular companies that use Sinatra, whereas Fastify is used by OTOBANK, Distopik, and Detroit Technical English. Sinatra has a broader approval, being mentioned in 92 company stacks & 34 developers stacks; compared to Fastify, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Sinatra	Fastify
Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.	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%.
-	100% asynchronous: all the core is implemented with asynchronous code, in this way not even a millisecond is wasted.;Highly performant: as far as we know, Fastify is one of the fastest web frameworks in town, depending on the code complexity we can serve up to 20000 request per second.;Extendible: Fastify is fully extensible via its hooks, plugins and decorators.;Schema based: even if it is not mandatory we recommend to use JSON Schema to validate your routes and serialize your outputs, internally Fastify compiles the schema in an highly performant function.;Logging: logs are extremely important but are costly; we chose the best logger to almost remove this cost, Pino!;Developer friendly: the framework is built to be very expressive and help the developer in his daily use, without sacrificing performance and security.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 12.4K	GitHub Stars 34.9K
GitHub Forks 2.1K	GitHub Forks 2.5K
Stacks 1.1K	Stacks 506
Followers 502	Followers 523
Votes 212	Votes 95
Pros & Cons
Pros 65 Lightweight 50 Simple 35 Open source 20 Ruby 13 Great ecosystem of tools	Pros 21 Performance 13 Easy to use 12 Lightweight 9 Open source 9 Middleware Cons 1 Small community
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Ruby Padrino	Node.js

What are some alternatives to Sinatra, Fastify?

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.

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.

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.

Falcon

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.

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.