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Sinatra
BySinatraSinatra

Sinatra

#4in Microframeworks
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What is Sinatra?

Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.

Sinatra is a tool in the Microframeworks category of a tech stack.

Sinatra Pros & Cons

Pros of Sinatra

  • ✓Lightweight
  • ✓Simple
  • ✓Open source
  • ✓Ruby
  • ✓Great ecosystem of tools
  • ✓Ease of use
  • ✓If you know http you know sinatra
  • ✓Fast
  • ✓Large Community
  • ✓Flexibilty and easy to use

Cons of Sinatra

No cons listed yet.

Sinatra Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Sinatra?

ExpressJS

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

Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.

Django REST framework

Django REST framework

It is a powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.

FastAPI

FastAPI

It is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.

Koa

Koa

Koa aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs. Through leveraging generators Koa allows you to ditch callbacks and greatly increase error-handling. Koa does not bundle any middleware.

TypeORM

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.

Sinatra Integrations

Ruby, Padrino, Padrino, CarrierWave, Bugsnag and 4 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Sinatra. Here's a list of all 9 tools that integrate with Sinatra.

Ruby
Ruby
Padrino
Padrino
Padrino
Padrino
CarrierWave
CarrierWave
Bugsnag
Bugsnag
Airbrake
Airbrake
AnyChart
AnyChart
Sentry
Sentry
htmx
htmx

Sinatra Discussions

Discover why developers choose Sinatra. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.Showing 2 of 5 discussions.

Tyler Harden
Tyler Harden

Software Engineer at datapile

Mar 15, 2016

Needs adviceonSinatraSinatra

Scalatra (we had to pick Sinatra on StackShare since Scalatra is has not yet been officially added) is the slickest (not to be confused with Slick for Scala) web/applet server framework we've had the pleasure of playing with in Scala.

For all intensive purposes, Scalatra is the Scala version of Sinatra (which for anyone who doesn't know is a Ruby web server DSL). Sinatra

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Stefan Borsje
Stefan Borsje

Jan 15, 2015

Needs adviceonSinatraSinatra

We use Sinatra a lot. I love Sinatra for APIs. It's really simple, really lightweight. It's awesome. Sinatra

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