Charles vs Falcor

Overview

Charles

Stacks140

Followers167

Votes0

Falcor

Stacks27

Followers79

Votes14

GitHub Stars10.6K

Forks449

Charles vs Falcor: What are the differences?

What is Charles? HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy. Charles is a web proxy (HTTP Proxy / HTTP Monitor) that runs on your own computer. Your web browser (or any other Internet application) is then configured to access the Internet through Charles, and Charles is then able to record and display for you all of the data that is sent and received.

What is Falcor? A JavaScript library for efficient data fetching, created by Netflix. Falcor lets you represent all your remote data sources as a single domain model via a virtual JSON graph. You code the same way no matter where the data is, whether in memory on the client or over the network on the server.

Charles and Falcor can be primarily classified as "API" tools.

Some of the features offered by Charles are:

SSL Proxying – view SSL requests and responses in plain text
Bandwidth Throttling to simulate slower Internet connections including latency
AJAX debugging – view XML and JSON requests and responses as a tree or as text

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

One Model Everywhere
The Data is the API
Bind to the Cloud

Falcor is an open source tool with 9.36K GitHub stars and 449 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Falcor's open source repository on GitHub.

Adorama, Freemake, and StellaService are some of the popular companies that use Charles, whereas Falcor is used by Netflix, AngularClass, and PiggyPot. Charles has a broader approval, being mentioned in 16 company stacks & 13 developers stacks; compared to Falcor, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Charles	Falcor
Charles is a web proxy (HTTP Proxy / HTTP Monitor) that runs on your own computer. Your web browser (or any other Internet application) is then configured to access the Internet through Charles, and Charles is then able to record and display for you all of the data that is sent and received.	Falcor lets you represent all your remote data sources as a single domain model via a virtual JSON graph. You code the same way no matter where the data is, whether in memory on the client or over the network on the server.
SSL Proxying – view SSL requests and responses in plain text;Bandwidth Throttling to simulate slower Internet connections including latency;AJAX debugging – view XML and JSON requests and responses as a tree or as text;AMF – view the contents of Flash Remoting / Flex Remoting messages as a tree;Repeat requests to test back-end changes;Edit requests to test different inputs;Breakpoints to intercept and edit requests or responses;Validate recorded HTML, CSS and RSS/atom responses using the W3C validator	One Model Everywhere;The Data is the API;Bind to the Cloud
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 10.6K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 449
Stacks 140	Stacks 27
Followers 167	Followers 79
Votes 0	Votes 14
Pros & Cons
No community feedback yet	Pros 2 Data is the API 2 One Model Everywhere 2 Promotes microservices 2 Small API 1 Bind to the Cloud

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