Aurelia vs GraphQL

Overview

Aurelia

Stacks276

Followers294

Votes374

GitHub Stars11.7K

Forks613

GraphQL

Stacks34.9K

Followers28.1K

Votes309

Aurelia vs GraphQL: What are the differences?

Developers describe Aurelia as "Next gen JS framework written with ES6 and ES7. Integrates with Web Components. No external dependencies except polyfills". Aurelia is a next generation JavaScript client framework that leverages simple conventions to empower your creativity. On the other hand, GraphQL is detailed as "A data query language and runtime". GraphQL is a data query language and runtime designed and used at Facebook to request and deliver data to mobile and web apps since 2012.

Aurelia and GraphQL are primarily classified as "Javascript MVC Frameworks" and "Query Languages" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Aurelia are:

Two-Way Databinding
Routing & UI Composition
Extensible HTML

On the other hand, GraphQL provides the following key features:

Hierarchical
Product-centric
Client-specified queries

"Simple with conventions" is the top reason why over 38 developers like Aurelia, while over 61 developers mention "Schemas defined by the requests made by the user" as the leading cause for choosing GraphQL.

Aurelia and GraphQL are both open source tools. GraphQL with 11.7K GitHub stars and 753 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Aurelia with 11.1K GitHub stars and 665 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, GraphQL has a broader approval, being mentioned in 560 company stacks & 749 developers stacks; compared to Aurelia, which is listed in 17 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Aurelia	GraphQL
Aurelia is a next generation JavaScript client framework that leverages simple conventions to empower your creativity.	GraphQL is a data query language and runtime designed and used at Facebook to request and deliver data to mobile and web apps since 2012.
Two-Way Databinding;Routing & UI Composition;Extensible HTML;MV* with Conventions;Broad Language Support;Testable	Hierarchical;Product-centric;Client-specified queries;Backwards Compatible;Structured, Arbitrary Code;Application-Layer Protocol;Strongly-typed;Introspective
Statistics
GitHub Stars 11.7K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 613	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 276	Stacks 34.9K
Followers 294	Followers 28.1K
Votes 374	Votes 309
Pros & Cons
Pros 47 Simple with conventions 42 Modern architecture 39 Makes sense and is mostly javascript not framework 31 Extensible 28 Integrates well with other components	Pros 75 Schemas defined by the requests made by the user 63 Will replace RESTful interfaces 62 The future of API's 49 The future of databases 12 Self-documenting Cons 4 More code to type. 4 Hard to migrate from GraphQL to another technology 2 Takes longer to build compared to schemaless. 1 Works just like any other API at runtime 1 No support for caching

What are some alternatives to Aurelia, GraphQL?

AngularJS

AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.

Vue.js

It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.

Ember.js

A JavaScript framework that does all of the heavy lifting that you'd normally have to do by hand. There are tasks that are common to every web app; It does those things for you, so you can focus on building killer features and UI.

Backbone.js

Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface.

Angular

It is a TypeScript-based open-source web application framework. It is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications.

Mithril

Mithril is around 12kb gzipped thanks to its small, focused, API. It provides a templating engine with a virtual DOM diff implementation for performant rendering, utilities for high-level modelling via functional composition, as well as support for routing and componentization.

Marionette

It is a JavaScript library with a RESTful JSON interface and is based on the Model–view–presenter application design paradigm. Backbone is known for being lightweight, as its only hard dependency is on one JavaScript library, Underscore.js, plus jQuery for use of the full library.

Prisma

Prisma is an open-source database toolkit. It replaces traditional ORMs and makes database access easy with an auto-generated query builder for TypeScript & Node.js.

PostGraphile

Execute one command (or mount one Node.js middleware) and get an instant high-performance GraphQL API for your PostgreSQL database

OData

It is an ISO/IEC approved, OASIS standard that defines a set of best practices for building and consuming RESTful APIs. It helps you focus on your business logic while building RESTful APIs without having to worry about the various approaches to define request and response headers, status codes, HTTP methods, URL conventions, media types, payload formats, query options, etc.