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Falcor vs Reqres: 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 Reqres? Test your front-end against a real API. A hosted REST-API ready to respond to your AJAX requests.
Falcor and Reqres 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, Reqres provides the following key features:
- Reqres does not store any of your data at all
- Fake data
- Real responses
Falcor and Reqres are both open source tools. It seems that Falcor with 9.36K GitHub stars and 449 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Reqres with 944 GitHub stars and 117 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 Reqres
- Fake data2
- RESTful API2
- Open source1
- Always-on1
- Rapid prototyping of interfaces1
- Language agnostic1
- Hosted on Digital Ocean1
