BrowserSync vs Travis CI: What are the differences?
What is BrowserSync? Reload all your browsers, every time you hit save. BrowserSync makes your tweaking and testing faster by synchronising file changes and interactions across multiple devices. It’s wicked-fast and totally free.
What is Travis CI? A hosted continuous integration service for open source and private projects. Free for open source projects, our CI environment provides multiple runtimes (e.g. Node.js or PHP versions), data stores and so on. Because of this, hosting your project on travis-ci.com means you can effortlessly test your library or applications against multiple runtimes and data stores without even having all of them installed locally.
BrowserSync and Travis CI are primarily classified as "Live Reloading" and "Continuous Integration" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by BrowserSync are:
- Interaction sync
- File sync
- URL history
On the other hand, Travis CI provides the following key features:
- Easy Setup- Getting started with Travis CI is as easy as enabling a project, adding basic build instructions to your project and committing code.
- Supports Your Platform- Lots of databases and services are pre-installed and can simply be enabled in your build configuration, we'll launch them for you automatically. MySQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, Riak, RabbitMQ, Memcached are available by default.
- Deploy With Confidence- Deploying to production after a successful build is as easy as setting up a bit of configuration, and we'll deploy your code to Heroku, Engine Yard Cloud, Nodejitsu, cloudControl, OpenShift, and CloudFoundry.
BrowserSync is an open source tool with 10.7K GitHub stars and 689 GitHub forks. Here's a link to BrowserSync's open source repository on GitHub.
Lyft, Heroku, and Rainist are some of the popular companies that use Travis CI, whereas BrowserSync is used by Reactor Digital, Kriasoft, and Zenfulfillment. Travis CI has a broader approval, being mentioned in 670 company stacks & 624 developers stacks; compared to BrowserSync, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 12 developer stacks.
