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Falcor vs MOCKtastic: What are the differences?
Developers describe Falcor as "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. On the other hand, MOCKtastic is detailed as "Easy, offline, mock API servers". Decouple your client side dev from your API dev Just create a mock API, publish it to your team, and get started on the actual work..
Falcor and MOCKtastic belong to "API Tools" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Falcor are:
- One Model Everywhere
- The Data is the API
- Bind to the Cloud
On the other hand, MOCKtastic provides the following key features:
- Multiple Responses per Route
- Express Style Routing
- Rich Code Editor
Falcor is an open source tool with 9.36K GitHub stars and 449 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Falcor's open source repository on GitHub.
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