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Apigility vs Shields.io: What are the differences?
What is Apigility? 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!.
What is Shields.io? GitHub badges as a service. Legible & concise status badges for third-party codebase services.
Apigility and Shields.io 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, Shields.io provides the following key features:
- Have your own GitHub badges
- Visual consistency
- Look good on high-res displays
Apigility and Shields.io are both open source tools. Shields.io with 8.53K GitHub stars and 2.01K 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 Shields.io
- Easiest way to create lovely badges4
- Easy & Awesome2
- Open source1
- Chef integration1
