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Apigility vs Falcor: What are the differences?
Developers describe Apigility as "The world's easiest way to create high-quality APIs". An API-based architecture is essential to agile delivery of mobile applications. Apigility provides JSON representations that can be parsed and used in any mobile framework; write for the web or native applications simultaneously!. On the other hand, Falcor is detailed as "A JavaScript library for efficient data fetching, created by Netflix". Falcor lets you represent all your remote data sources as a single domain model via a virtual JSON graph. You code the same way no matter where the data is, whether in memory on the client or over the network on the server.
Apigility and Falcor belong to "API Tools" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Apigility are:
- RESTful or RPC services
- JSON (specifically, HAL)
- Problem Details for HTTP APIs
On the other hand, Falcor provides the following key features:
- One Model Everywhere
- The Data is the API
- Bind to the Cloud
Apigility and Falcor are both open source tools. Falcor with 9.36K GitHub stars and 449 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Apigility with 477 GitHub stars and 144 GitHub forks.
Pros of Apigility
- Follows Standards, Easy to Use, Design Patterns Used1
- Active dev community, full-featured, REST + RPC1
Pros of Falcor
- Promotes microservices2
- Small API2
- Data is the API2
- One Model Everywhere2
- efficient data fetching1
- Bind to the Cloud1
- Virtual JSON Resource1
- Simple1
- Backed by Netflix1
- JSON Graph1