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Fastify vs Grape: What are the differences?

What is Fastify? Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js. Fastify is a web framework highly focused on speed and low overhead. It is inspired from Hapi and Express and as far as we know, it is one of the fastest web frameworks in town. Use Fastify can increase your throughput up to 100%.

What is Grape? An opinionated micro-framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby. Grape is a REST-like API micro-framework for Ruby. It's designed to run on Rack or complement existing web application frameworks such as Rails and Sinatra by providing a simple DSL to easily develop RESTful APIs. It has built-in support for common conventions, including multiple formats, subdomain/prefix restriction, content negotiation, versioning and much more.

Fastify and Grape can be categorized as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.

Fastify and Grape are both open source tools. It seems that Fastify with 11.2K GitHub stars and 690 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Grape with 8.87K GitHub stars and 1.09K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Grape has a broader approval, being mentioned in 11 company stacks & 7 developers stacks; compared to Fastify, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

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Pros of Fastify
Pros of Grape
  • 21
    Performance
  • 13
    Easy to use
  • 12
    Lightweight
  • 9
    Open source
  • 9
    Middleware
  • 6
    Highly customizable
  • 4
    Developer friendly
  • 4
    Decorators
  • 4
    Low overhead
  • 4
    Built-in Typescript support
  • 3
    Mature
  • 3
    Schema based
  • 3
    Plugins
  • 4
    Open source
  • 4
    Well documented
  • 2
    Can be used to apply good security to the whole API

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Cons of Fastify
Cons of Grape
  • 1
    Small community
  • 1
    Code structure makes reuse difficult

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What is Fastify?

Fastify is a web framework highly focused on speed and low overhead. It is inspired from Hapi and Express and as far as we know, it is one of the fastest web frameworks in town. Use Fastify can increase your throughput up to 100%.

What is Grape?

Grape is a REST-like API micro-framework for Ruby. It's designed to run on Rack or complement existing web application frameworks such as Rails and Sinatra by providing a simple DSL to easily develop RESTful APIs. It has built-in support for common conventions, including multiple formats, subdomain/prefix restriction, content negotiation, versioning and much more.

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What are some alternatives to Fastify and Grape?
Koa
Koa aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs. Through leveraging generators Koa allows you to ditch callbacks and greatly increase error-handling. Koa does not bundle any middleware.
Restify
A Node.js web service framework optimized for building semantically correct RESTful web services ready for production use at scale. it optimizes for introspection and performance.
hapi
hapi is a simple to use configuration-centric framework with built-in support for input validation, caching, authentication, and other essential facilities for building web applications and services.
Golang
Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.
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.
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