Rails API vs Hug

Overview

Rails API

Stacks95

Followers142

Votes16

GitHub Stars5.1K

Forks275

Hug

Stacks14

Followers55

Votes12

Hug vs Rails API: What are the differences?

Developers describe Hug as "New Python REST API and CLI micro-framework". Hug aims to make developing Python driven APIs as simple as possible, but no simpler. As a result, it drastically simplifies Python API development. On the other hand, Rails API is detailed as "Rails for API only applications". Rails::API is a subset of a normal Rails application, created for applications that don't require all functionality that a complete Rails application provides. It is a bit more lightweight, and consequently a bit faster than a normal Rails application. The main example for its usage is in API applications only, where you usually don't need the entire Rails middleware stack nor template generation.

Hug and Rails API belong to "Microframeworks (Backend)" category of the tech stack.

"Simple" is the top reason why over 3 developers like Hug, while over 4 developers mention "Great for quick decoupled apps" as the leading cause for choosing Rails API.

Hug and Rails API are both open source tools. It seems that Hug with 5.8K GitHub stars and 344 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Rails API with 5.26K GitHub stars and 293 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

Rails API	Hug
Rails::API is a subset of a normal Rails application, created for applications that don't require all functionality that a complete Rails application provides. It is a bit more lightweight, and consequently a bit faster than a normal Rails application. The main example for its usage is in API applications only, where you usually don't need the entire Rails middleware stack nor template generation.	Hug aims to make developing Python driven APIs as simple as possible, but no simpler. As a result, it drastically simplifies Python API development.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 5.1K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 275	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 95	Stacks 14
Followers 142	Followers 55
Votes 16	Votes 12
Pros & Cons
Pros 5 Lightweight 5 Great for quick decoupled apps 3 Simply the best 2 Soon to be merged into core Rails 5 1 Logging by default	Pros 4 Simple 2 Fast 2 Elegant 2 REST 2 Self documenting
Integrations
Ruby	Python

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Slim

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Fastify

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