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Echo vs Sinatra: What are the differences?
What is Echo? Golang HTTP server framework. Echo is a fast and unfancy HTTP server framework for Go (Golang). Up to 10x faster than the rest.
What is Sinatra? Classy web-development dressed in a DSL. Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.
Echo and Sinatra can be categorized as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.
"Highly customizable" is the primary reason why developers consider Echo over the competitors, whereas "Lightweight" was stated as the key factor in picking Sinatra.
Echo and Sinatra are both open source tools. It seems that Echo with 14.4K GitHub stars and 1.31K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Sinatra with 10.6K GitHub stars and 1.9K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Sinatra has a broader approval, being mentioned in 92 company stacks & 34 developers stacks; compared to Echo, which is listed in 18 company stacks and 12 developer stacks.
Pros of Echo
- Easy to use11
- Highly customizable10
- Performance10
- Open source9
- Lightweight9
- Middleware7
- Minimal3
Pros of Sinatra
- Lightweight65
- Simple50
- Open source35
- Ruby20
- Great ecosystem of tools13
- Ease of use10
- If you know http you know sinatra8
- Large Community5
- Fast5
- Flexibilty and easy to use1