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Firehose.io vs Gun: What are the differences?

What is Firehose.io? Build realtime Ruby web applications. Firehose is both a Rack application and JavaScript library that makes building real-time web applications possible.

What is Gun? Self-hosted Firebase. GUN is a realtime, decentralized, embedded, graph database engine.

Firehose.io and Gun can be categorized as "Realtime Backend / API" tools.

Gun is an open source tool with 10.3K GitHub stars and 640 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Gun's open source repository on GitHub.

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What is Firehose.io?

Firehose is both a Rack application and JavaScript library that makes building real-time web applications possible.

What is Gun?

GUN is a realtime, decentralized, embedded, graph database engine.

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