What is Sinatra?
Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.
Sinatra is a tool in the Microframeworks (Backend) category of a tech stack.
Sinatra is an open source tool with 12.2K GitHub stars and 2.1K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Sinatra's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Sinatra?
Companies
126 companies reportedly use Sinatra in their tech stacks, including GitHub, Accenture, and Fiverr.
Developers
505 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Sinatra.
Sinatra Integrations
Ruby, Sentry, Bugsnag, Airbrake, and CarrierWave are some of the popular tools that integrate with Sinatra. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Sinatra.
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Sinatra Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Sinatra?
Rails
Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
Flask
Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.
Rails API
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.
Hanami
Use the 100+ features that we offer to build powerful products without compromising memory. Hanami consumes 60% less memory than other full-featured Ruby frameworks.
Padrino
Padrino is a ruby framework built upon the excellent Sinatra Microframework. Padrino was created to make it fun and easy to code more advanced web applications while still adhering to the spirit that makes Sinatra great!