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  5. Bottle vs hapi

Bottle vs hapi

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Overview

hapi
hapi
Stacks434
Followers456
Votes87
Bottle
Bottle
Stacks74
Followers55
Votes5

Bottle vs hapi: What are the differences?

What is Bottle? A lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python. It is distributed as a single file module and has no dependencies other than the Python Standard Library. It has fast and pythonic built-in template engine and support for mako, jinja2 and cheetah templates.

What is hapi? Server Framework for Node.js. 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.

Bottle and hapi belong to "Microframeworks (Backend)" category of the tech stack.

hapi is an open source tool with 11.3K GitHub stars and 1.16K GitHub forks. Here's a link to hapi's open source repository on GitHub.

Hazeorid, Beam, and Kanteron Systems are some of the popular companies that use hapi, whereas Bottle is used by Net Power & Light, Paysa, and Sotong Kitchen. hapi has a broader approval, being mentioned in 68 company stacks & 196 developers stacks; compared to Bottle, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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Advice on hapi, Bottle

Girish
Girish

Software Engineer at FireVisor Systems

Apr 17, 2020

Needs adviceonPythonPythonNamekoNamekoRabbitMQRabbitMQ

Which is the best Python framework for microservices?

We are using Nameko for building microservices in Python. The things we really like are dependency injection and the ease with which one can expose endpoints via RPC over RabbitMQ. We are planning to try a tool that helps us write polyglot microservices and nameko is not super compatible with it. Also, we are a bit worried about the not so good community support from nameko and looking for a python alternate to write microservices.

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Detailed Comparison

hapi
hapi
Bottle
Bottle

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.

It is distributed as a single file module and has no dependencies other than the Python Standard Library. It has fast and pythonic built-in template engine and support for mako, jinja2 and cheetah templates.

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Fast and pythonic built-in template engine; Built-in HTTP development server
Statistics
Stacks
434
Stacks
74
Followers
456
Followers
55
Votes
87
Votes
5
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 27
    Makes me Hapi making REST APIs
  • 14
    Simpler than other REST libraries
  • 14
    Configuration
  • 13
    Quality Driven Ecosystem
  • 13
    Modularization
Pros
  • 2
    Super easy to use
  • 2
    Great documentation
  • 1
    Faster
Integrations
Node.js
Node.js
Python
Python
Vue.js
Vue.js
Jinja
Jinja

What are some alternatives to hapi, Bottle?

ExpressJS

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.

Django REST framework

Django REST framework

It is a powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.

Sails.js

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.

Sinatra

Sinatra

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

Lumen

Lumen

Laravel Lumen is a stunningly fast PHP micro-framework for building web applications with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Lumen attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as routing, database abstraction, queueing, and caching.

Slim

Slim

Slim is easy to use for both beginners and professionals. Slim favors cleanliness over terseness and common cases over edge cases. Its interface is simple, intuitive, and extensively documented — both online and in the code itself.

Fastify

Fastify

Fastify is a web framework highly focused on speed and low overhead. It is inspired from Hapi and Express and as far as we know, it is one of the fastest web frameworks in town. Use Fastify can increase your throughput up to 100%.

Falcon

Falcon

Falcon is a minimalist WSGI library for building speedy web APIs and app backends. We like to think of Falcon as the Dieter Rams of web frameworks.

TypeORM

TypeORM

It supports both Active Record and Data Mapper patterns, unlike all other JavaScript ORMs currently in existence, which means you can write high quality, loosely coupled, scalable, maintainable applications the most productive way.

FeathersJS

FeathersJS

Feathers is a real-time, micro-service web framework for NodeJS that gives you control over your data via RESTful resources, sockets and flexible plug-ins.

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