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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.

What is Hug? New Python REST API and CLI micro-framework. Hug aims to make developing Python driven APIs as simple as possible, but no simpler. As a result, it drastically simplifies Python API development.

Grape and Hug can be primarily classified as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.

"Well documented" is the top reason why over 3 developers like Grape, while over 3 developers mention "Simple" as the leading cause for choosing Hug.

Grape and Hug are both open source tools. It seems that Grape with 8.86K GitHub stars and 1.09K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Hug with 5.78K GitHub stars and 341 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Grape

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4
Open source
4
Well documented
2
Can be used to apply good security to the whole API

4
Simple
2
Self documenting
2
REST
2
Fast
2
Elegant

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Code structure makes reuse difficult

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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.

What is Hug?

Hug aims to make developing Python driven APIs as simple as possible, but no simpler. As a result, it drastically simplifies Python API development.

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What are some alternatives to Grape and Hug?

Red

It is both an imperative and functional programming language. Its syntax and general usage overlaps that of the interpreted Rebol language.

Rails API

Rails::API is a subset of a normal Rails application, created for applications that don't require all functionality that a complete Rails application provides. It is a bit more lightweight, and consequently a bit faster than a normal Rails application. The main example for its usage is in API applications only, where you usually don't need the entire Rails middleware stack nor template generation.

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.

Flask

Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.

Django REST framework

It is a powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.

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