IntrideaWhat is Grape?
Grape is a REST-like API micro-framework for Ruby. It's designed to run on Rack or complement existing web application frameworks such as Rails and Sinatra by providing a simple DSL to easily develop RESTful APIs. It has built-in support for common conventions, including multiple formats, subdomain/prefix restriction, content negotiation, versioning and much more.
Grape is a tool in the Microframeworks category of a tech stack.
Grape Pros & Cons
Pros of Grape
- ✓Open source
- ✓Well documented
- ✓Can be used to apply good security to the whole API
Cons of Grape
- ✗Code structure makes reuse difficult
Grape Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Grape?
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.
FastAPI
It is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.
