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Grape

Stacks103

Followers105

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Votes10

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Stacks430

Followers665

+ 1

Votes161

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Grape vs Lumen: What are the differences?

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; Lumen: The stunningly fast PHP micro-framework by Laravel. Laravel Lumen is a stunningly fast PHP micro-framework for building web applications with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Lumen attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as routing, database abstraction, queueing, and caching.

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

"Well documented" is the top reason why over 3 developers like Grape, while over 16 developers mention "API" as the leading cause for choosing Lumen.

Grape and Lumen are both open source tools. Grape with 8.87K GitHub stars and 1.09K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Lumen with 6.31K GitHub stars and 836 GitHub forks.

Geocodio, Next, and Index.co are some of the popular companies that use Lumen, whereas Grape is used by DivShot, TaxJar, and Master Of Code Global. Lumen has a broader approval, being mentioned in 34 company stacks & 25 developers stacks; compared to Grape, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

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Pros of Grape

Pros of Lumen

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

38
API
28
Microframework
19
MVC
16
PHP
12
Open source
11
Eloquent
10
Restful & fast framework
8
Composer
7
Illuminate support
4
Brother of laravel and fast
4
Easy to learn
4
Fast

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Cons of Grape

Cons of Lumen

1
Code structure makes reuse difficult

3
Not fast
2
PHP
1
Not fast with MongoDB

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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 Lumen?

Laravel Lumen is a stunningly fast PHP micro-framework for building web applications with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Lumen attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as routing, database abstraction, queueing, and caching.

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Red

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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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