Facebook Sonar vs GitHub vs GitLab

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Facebook Sonar

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11
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GitHub

286K
249.7K
+ 1
10.3K
GitLab

61.9K
53K
+ 1
2.5K
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Pros of Facebook Sonar
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      Open source friendly
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      Easy source control
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      Nice UI
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      Great for team collaboration
    • 867
      Easy setup
    • 504
      Issue tracker
    • 487
      Great community
    • 483
      Remote team collaboration
    • 449
      Great way to share
    • 442
      Pull request and features planning
    • 147
      Just works
    • 132
      Integrated in many tools
    • 122
      Free Public Repos
    • 116
      Github Gists
    • 113
      Github pages
    • 83
      Easy to find repos
    • 62
      Open source
    • 60
      Easy to find projects
    • 60
      It's free
    • 56
      Network effect
    • 49
      Extensive API
    • 43
      Organizations
    • 42
      Branching
    • 34
      Developer Profiles
    • 32
      Git Powered Wikis
    • 30
      Great for collaboration
    • 24
      It's fun
    • 23
      Clean interface and good integrations
    • 22
      Community SDK involvement
    • 20
      Learn from others source code
    • 16
      Because: Git
    • 14
      It integrates directly with Azure
    • 10
      Standard in Open Source collab
    • 10
      Newsfeed
    • 8
      Fast
    • 8
      Beautiful user experience
    • 8
      It integrates directly with Hipchat
    • 7
      Easy to discover new code libraries
    • 6
      Smooth integration
    • 6
      Integrations
    • 6
      Graphs
    • 6
      Nice API
    • 6
      It's awesome
    • 6
      Cloud SCM
    • 5
      Quick Onboarding
    • 5
      Remarkable uptime
    • 5
      CI Integration
    • 5
      Reliable
    • 5
      Hands down best online Git service available
    • 4
      Version Control
    • 4
      Unlimited Public Repos at no cost
    • 4
      Simple but powerful
    • 4
      Loved by developers
    • 4
      Free HTML hosting
    • 4
      Uses GIT
    • 4
      Security options
    • 4
      Easy to use and collaborate with others
    • 3
      Easy deployment via SSH
    • 3
      Ci
    • 3
      IAM
    • 3
      Nice to use
    • 2
      Easy and efficient maintainance of the projects
    • 2
      Beautiful
    • 2
      Self Hosted
    • 2
      Issues tracker
    • 2
      Easy source control and everything is backed up
    • 2
      Never dethroned
    • 2
      All in one development service
    • 2
      Good tools support
    • 2
      Free HTML hostings
    • 2
      IAM integration
    • 2
      Very Easy to Use
    • 2
      Easy to use
    • 2
      Leads the copycats
    • 2
      Free private repos
    • 1
      Profound
    • 1
      Dasf
    • 508
      Self hosted
    • 431
      Free
    • 339
      Has community edition
    • 242
      Easy setup
    • 240
      Familiar interface
    • 137
      Includes many features, including ci
    • 113
      Nice UI
    • 84
      Good integration with gitlabci
    • 57
      Simple setup
    • 35
      Has an official mobile app
    • 34
      Free private repository
    • 31
      Continuous Integration
    • 23
      Open source, great ui (like github)
    • 18
      Slack Integration
    • 15
      Full CI flow
    • 11
      Free and unlimited private git repos
    • 10
      All in one (Git, CI, Agile..)
    • 10
      User, group, and project access management is simple
    • 8
      Intuitive UI
    • 8
      Built-in CI
    • 6
      Full DevOps suite with Git
    • 6
      Both public and private Repositories
    • 5
      Integrated Docker Registry
    • 5
      So easy to use
    • 5
      CI
    • 5
      Build/pipeline definition alongside code
    • 5
      It's powerful source code management tool
    • 4
      Dockerized
    • 4
      It's fully integrated
    • 4
      On-premises
    • 4
      Security and Stable
    • 4
      Unlimited free repos & collaborators
    • 4
      Not Microsoft Owned
    • 4
      Excellent
    • 4
      Issue system
    • 4
      Mattermost Chat client
    • 3
      Great for team collaboration
    • 3
      Free private repos
    • 3
      Because is the best remote host for git repositories
    • 3
      Built-in Docker Registry
    • 3
      Opensource
    • 3
      Low maintenance cost due omnibus-deployment
    • 3
      I like the its runners and executors feature
    • 2
      Beautiful
    • 2
      Groups of groups
    • 2
      Multilingual interface
    • 2
      Powerful software planning and maintaining tools
    • 2
      Review Apps feature
    • 2
      Kubernetes integration with GitLab CI
    • 2
      One-click install through DigitalOcean
    • 2
      Powerful Continuous Integration System
    • 2
      It includes everything I need, all packaged with docker
    • 2
      The dashboard with deployed environments
    • 2
      HipChat intergration
    • 2
      Many private repo
    • 2
      Kubernetes Integration
    • 2
      Published IP list for whitelisting (gl-infra#434)
    • 2
      Wounderful
    • 2
      Native CI
    • 1
      Supports Radius/Ldap & Browser Code Edits

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    Cons of Facebook Sonar
    Cons of GitHub
    Cons of GitLab
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      • 55
        Owned by micrcosoft
      • 38
        Expensive for lone developers that want private repos
      • 15
        Relatively slow product/feature release cadence
      • 10
        API scoping could be better
      • 9
        Only 3 collaborators for private repos
      • 4
        Limited featureset for issue management
      • 3
        Does not have a graph for showing history like git lens
      • 2
        GitHub Packages does not support SNAPSHOT versions
      • 1
        No multilingual interface
      • 1
        Takes a long time to commit
      • 1
        Expensive
      • 28
        Slow ui performance
      • 9
        Introduce breaking bugs every release
      • 6
        Insecure (no published IP list for whitelisting)
      • 2
        Built-in Docker Registry
      • 1
        Review Apps feature

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      What is Facebook Sonar?

      Sonar is a platform for debugging mobile apps on iOS and Android. Visualize, inspect, and control your apps from a simple desktop interface. Use Sonar as is or extend it using the plugin API.

      What is GitHub?

      GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

      What is GitLab?

      GitLab offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis. Enterprises install GitLab on-premise and connect it with LDAP and Active Directory servers for secure authentication and authorization. A single GitLab server can handle more than 25,000 users but it is also possible to create a high availability setup with multiple active servers.

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