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Alamofire vs axios: What are the differences?
What is Alamofire? HTTP networking library for iOS and macOS. It is a Swift-based HTTP networking library for iOS and macOS. It provides an elegant interface on top of Apple's Foundation networking stack that simplifies a number of common networking tasks.
What is axios? Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js. It is a Javascript library used to make http requests from node.js or XMLHttpRequests from the browser and it supports the Promise API that is native to JS ES6.
Alamofire and axios are primarily classified as "API" and "Javascript Utilities & Libraries" tools respectively.
Alamofire and axios are both open source tools. It seems that axios with 62.9K GitHub stars and 5.21K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Alamofire with 31.6K GitHub stars and 5.68K GitHub forks.
AgFlow, Jobsrepublic, and DesignMatch are some of the popular companies that use axios, whereas Alamofire is used by Onkore, Inc., neWave developers, and Blanco Services. axios has a broader approval, being mentioned in 13 company stacks & 28 developers stacks; compared to Alamofire, which is listed in 17 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.
