Django REST framework vs Volt

Volt vs Django REST framework: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is Django REST framework? Web APIs for Django. It is a powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.

Volt and Django REST framework can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

Some of the features offered by Volt are:

• Instead of syncing data between the client and server via HTTP, volt uses a persistent connection between the client and server
• When data is updated on one client, it is updated in the database and any other listening clients (with almost no setup code needed)
• Pages HTML is written in a handlebars like template language

On the other hand, Django REST framework provides the following key features:

• The Web browsable API is a huge usability win for your developers.
• Authentication policies including OAuth1a and OAuth2 out of the box.
• Serialization that supports both ORM and non-ORM data sources.

"Holy Grail (Server-Client)" is the primary reason why developers consider Volt over the competitors, whereas "Browsable api" was stated as the key factor in picking Django REST framework.

Volt and Django REST framework are both open source tools. It seems that Django REST framework with 15.5K GitHub stars and 4.53K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Volt with 3.29K GitHub stars and 210 GitHub forks.