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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 Sails.js? Realtime MVC Framework for Node.js. Sails is designed to mimic the MVC pattern of frameworks like Ruby on Rails, but with support for the requirements of modern apps: data-driven APIs with scalable, service-oriented architecture.

Grape and Sails.js belong to "Microframeworks (Backend)" category of the tech stack.

"Well documented" is the primary reason why developers consider Grape over the competitors, whereas "Data-driven apis " was stated as the key factor in picking Sails.js.

Grape and Sails.js are both open source tools. It seems that Sails.js with 20.6K GitHub stars and 1.85K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Grape with 8.86K GitHub stars and 1.09K GitHub forks.

TestLegends, HYPH, and Giguana are some of the popular companies that use Sails.js, whereas Grape is used by DivShot, TaxJar, and Master Of Code Global. Sails.js has a broader approval, being mentioned in 32 company stacks & 12 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 Sails.js

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

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Data-driven apis
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Waterline ORM
37
Mvc
32
Easy rest
25
Real-time
21
Open source
19
Service-oriented architecture
18
Scalable
10
Convension over configuration
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Rails-like asset pipeline
9
Node machines and machinepacks
7
Easy route/controller generation
6
Ruby on Rails basic stuff for JS devs
3
CLI for scaffolding project pieces
3
WebSocket support
1
Supportive community

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Cons of Grape

Cons of Sails.js

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Code structure makes reuse difficult

5
Waterline ORM
4
Defaults to VueJS
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Standard MVC

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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 Sails.js?

Sails is designed to mimic the MVC pattern of frameworks like Ruby on Rails, but with support for the requirements of modern apps: data-driven APIs with scalable, service-oriented architecture.

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What are some alternatives to Grape and Sails.js?

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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