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Falcor vs JSON Server: What are the differences?
What is Falcor? A JavaScript library for efficient data fetching, created by Netflix. Falcor lets you represent all your remote data sources as a single domain model via a virtual JSON graph. You code the same way no matter where the data is, whether in memory on the client or over the network on the server.
What is JSON Server? Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds. For front-end developers who need a quick back-end for prototyping and mocking. Created with <3 for front-end developers who need a quick back-end for prototyping and mocking.
Falcor and JSON Server can be categorized as "API" tools.
Falcor and JSON Server are both open source tools. It seems that JSON Server with 41.2K GitHub stars and 3.68K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Falcor with 9.36K GitHub stars and 449 GitHub forks.
Pros of Falcor
- Promotes microservices2
- Small API2
- Data is the API2
- One Model Everywhere2
- efficient data fetching1
- Bind to the Cloud1
- Virtual JSON Resource1
- Simple1
- Backed by Netflix1
- JSON Graph1
Pros of JSON Server
- Stupid simple7
