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Cocoa Touch (iOS)

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Cocoa Touch (iOS) vs Volt: What are the differences?

Cocoa Touch (iOS): The Cocoa Touch collection of frameworks includes everything needed to create iOS apps. The Cocoa Touch layer contains key frameworks for building iOS apps. These frameworks define the appearance of your app. They also provide the basic app infrastructure and support for key technologies such as multitasking, touch-based input, push notifications, and many high-level system services; Volt: A ruby web framework where your ruby runs on both server and client. Volt is a ruby web framework where your ruby code runs on both the server and the client (via opal.) The DOM automatically update as the user interacts with the page. Page state can be stored in the URL, if the user hits a URL directly, the HTML will first be rendered on the server for faster load times and easier indexing by search engines.

Cocoa Touch (iOS) and Volt can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

"Backed by Apple" is the top reason why over 5 developers like Cocoa Touch (iOS), while over 2 developers mention "Handlebars" as the leading cause for choosing Volt.

Volt is an open source tool with 3.3K GitHub stars and 209 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Volt's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Cocoa Touch (iOS)
Pros of Volt
  • 6
    Backed by Apple
  • 4
    It's just awesome
  • 2
    User Friendly Performance
  • 3
    Rich web applications
  • 3
    Holy Grail (Server-Client)
  • 3
    Reactive Web Framework
  • 3
    Open source
  • 3
    Ruby client side
  • 3
    Handlebars
  • 3
    WebSockets
  • 2
    Real Time
  • 1
    Great Ruby Gems
  • 1
    Super Awesome for Beginners
  • 1
    Fantabulous

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What is Cocoa Touch (iOS)?

The Cocoa Touch layer contains key frameworks for building iOS apps. These frameworks define the appearance of your app. They also provide the basic app infrastructure and support for key technologies such as multitasking, touch-based input, push notifications, and many high-level system services.

What is Volt?

Volt is a ruby web framework where your ruby code runs on both the server and the client (via opal.) The DOM automatically update as the user interacts with the page. Page state can be stored in the URL, if the user hits a URL directly, the HTML will first be rendered on the server for faster load times and easier indexing by search engines.

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