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Followers194

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actionhero.js vs Sails.js: What are the differences?

What is actionhero.js? The Reusable, Scalable, and Quick node.js API Server. The Reusable, Scalable, and Quick node.js API Server.

What is Sails.js? Realtime MVC Framework for Node.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.

actionhero.js and Sails.js belong to "Microframeworks (Backend)" category of the tech stack.

"Fast" is the top reason why over 4 developers like actionhero.js, while over 41 developers mention "Data-driven apis " as the leading cause for choosing Sails.js.

actionhero.js and Sails.js are both open source tools. Sails.js with 20.7K GitHub stars and 1.85K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than actionhero.js with 2.01K GitHub stars and 242 GitHub forks.

What is actionhero.js?

The Reusable, Scalable, and Quick node.js API Server.

What is 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.

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Why do developers choose actionhero.js?

Why do developers choose Sails.js?

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Lightweight
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Fast
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Same API code for many transports (HTTP, Socket, etc)
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Clear and declarative routing and controllers
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Data-driven apis
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Waterline ORM
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Mvc
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Easy rest
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Real-time
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Open source
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Scalable

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Defaults to VueJS

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What companies use actionhero.js?

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What are some alternatives to actionhero.js and Sails.js?

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.

Sinatra

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

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.

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