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cdnjs vs Fastly: What are the differences?
What is cdnjs? An open source community driven Javascript CDN. Everyone loves the Google CDN? Even Microsoft runs their own CDN. The problem is, they only host the most popular libraries. We host it all - JavaScript, CSS, SWF, images, etc! Powered by CloudFlare.
What is Fastly? We're redefining content delivery. Fastly's real-time content delivery network gives you total control over your content, unprecedented access to performance analytics, and the ability to instantly update content in 150 milliseconds.
cdnjs and Fastly can be primarily classified as "Content Delivery Network" tools.
"Free" is the primary reason why developers consider cdnjs over the competitors, whereas "Real-time updates" was stated as the key factor in picking Fastly.
cdnjs is an open source tool with 7.73K GitHub stars and 4.03K GitHub forks. Here's a link to cdnjs's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Fastly has a broader approval, being mentioned in 96 company stacks & 11 developers stacks; compared to cdnjs, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.
Pros of cdnjs
- Fast4
- Free3
- Easy Interface2
- Largest user base1
- Most number of libraries1
Pros of Fastly
- Real-time updates28
- Fastest CDN26
- Powerful API22
- Great support20
- Great customer support14
- Instant Purging7
- Custom VCL7
- Good pricing6
- Tag-based Purging6
- HTTP/2 Support5
- Speed & functionality4
- Image processing on demande (Fastly IO)4
- Best CDN4
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Cons of cdnjs
Cons of Fastly
- Minimum $50/mo spend1