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CarrierWave vs FilePond: What are the differences?

Developers describe CarrierWave as "Classier solution for file uploads for Rails, Sinatra and other Ruby web frameworks". This gem provides a simple and extremely flexible way to upload files from Ruby applications. It works well with Rack based web applications, such as Ruby on Rails. On the other hand, FilePond is detailed as "A flexible and fun JavaScript file upload library". A JavaScript library that can upload anything you throw at it, optimizes images for faster uploads and offers a great, accessible, silky smooth user experience.

CarrierWave and FilePond can be categorized as "File Uploads" tools.

CarrierWave and FilePond are both open source tools. It seems that CarrierWave with 8.36K GitHub stars and 1.49K forks on GitHub has more adoption than FilePond with 7.06K GitHub stars and 347 GitHub forks.

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What is CarrierWave?

This gem provides a simple and extremely flexible way to upload files from Ruby applications. It works well with Rack based web applications, such as Ruby on Rails.

What is FilePond?

A JavaScript library that can upload anything you throw at it, optimizes images for faster uploads and offers a great, accessible, silky smooth user experience.

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What are some alternatives to CarrierWave and FilePond?

Paperclip

It is intended as an easy file attachment library for ActiveRecord. The intent behind it was to keep setup as easy as possible and to treat files as much like other attributes as possible.

Shrine

Shrine implements a plugin system analogous to Roda’s and Sequel’s. Shrine ships with over 25 plugins, which together provide a great arsenal of features. Where CarrierWave and other file upload libraries favor complex class-level DSLs, Shrine favours simple instance-level interface.

Cloudinary

Cloudinary is a cloud-based service that streamlines websites and mobile applications' entire image and video management needs - uploads, storage, administration, manipulations, and delivery.

Filestack

Filepicker helps developers connect to their users' content. Connect, Store, and Process any file from anywhere on the Internet.

Uploadcare

Uploadcare is file management platform and a CDN for user-generated content. It is a robust file API for uploading, managing, processing, rendering, optimizing, and delivering users’ content.

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