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Falcon vs Jersey: What are the differences?

Developers describe Falcon as "High-performance Python framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends". Falcon is a minimalist WSGI library for building speedy web APIs and app backends. We like to think of Falcon as the Dieter Rams of web frameworks. On the other hand, Jersey is detailed as "*A REST framework that provides a JAX-RS implementation *". It is open source, production quality, framework for developing RESTful Web Services in Java that provides support for JAX-RS APIs and serves as a JAX-RS (JSR 311 & JSR 339) Reference Implementation. It provides it’s own API that extend the JAX-RS toolkit with additional features and utilities to further simplify RESTful service and client development.

Falcon and Jersey belong to "Microframeworks (Backend)" category of the tech stack.

Falcon is an open source tool with 6.88K GitHub stars and 710 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Falcon's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Falcon has a broader approval, being mentioned in 12 company stacks & 29 developers stacks; compared to Jersey, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.

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Pros of Falcon
Pros of Jersey
  • 13
    Python
  • 11
    FAST
  • 10
    Minimal
  • 8
    Open source
  • 8
    REST oriented
  • 8
    Well designed
  • 6
    Powerful
  • 6
    Really Light Weight
  • 5
    Documentation
  • 5
    Easy to develop and maintain applications
  • 3
    Easy to get started
  • 3
    Easy to deploy
  • 2
    Its simple while not limited
  • 1
    Faster
  • 0
    Kkk
  • 4
    Lightweight
  • 1
    Fast Performance With Microservices
  • 1
    Java standard

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What is Falcon?

Falcon is a minimalist WSGI library for building speedy web APIs and app backends. We like to think of Falcon as the Dieter Rams of web frameworks.

What is Jersey?

It is open source, production quality, framework for developing RESTful Web Services in Java that provides support for JAX-RS APIs and serves as a JAX-RS (JSR 311 & JSR 339) Reference Implementation. It provides it’s own API that extend the JAX-RS toolkit with additional features and utilities to further simplify RESTful service and client development.

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What are some alternatives to Falcon and Jersey?
Flask
Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.
ExpressJS
Express is a minimal and flexible node.js web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
Django REST framework
It is a powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.
Sinatra
Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.
FastAPI
It is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.
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