Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

hapi

Stacks411

Followers432

+ 1

Votes87

Sails.js

Stacks313

Followers494

+ 1

Votes296

Add tool

hapi vs Sails.js: What are the differences?

hapi: Server Framework for Node.js. hapi is a simple to use configuration-centric framework with built-in support for input validation, caching, authentication, and other essential facilities for building web applications and services; 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.

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

"Makes me Hapi making REST APIs" is the primary reason why developers consider hapi over the competitors, whereas "Data-driven apis " was stated as the key factor in picking Sails.js.

hapi and Sails.js are both open source tools. Sails.js with 20.6K GitHub stars and 1.85K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than hapi with 11.2K GitHub stars and 1.16K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, hapi has a broader approval, being mentioned in 54 company stacks & 33 developers stacks; compared to Sails.js, which is listed in 32 company stacks and 12 developer stacks.

Get Advice from developers at your company using StackShare Enterprise. Sign up for StackShare Enterprise.

Learn More

Pros of hapi

Pros of Sails.js

27
Makes me Hapi making REST APIs
14
Simpler than other REST libraries
14
Configuration
13
Quality Driven Ecosystem
13
Modularization
5
Easy testability
1
Better validation
0
Restify

49
Data-driven apis
47
Waterline ORM
37
Mvc
32
Easy rest
25
Real-time
21
Open source
19
Service-oriented architecture
18
Scalable
10
Convension over configuration
9
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

Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions

Cons of hapi

Cons of Sails.js

Be the first to leave a con

5
Waterline ORM
4
Defaults to VueJS
0
Standard MVC

Sign up to add or upvote consMake informed product decisions

- No public GitHub repository available -

What is hapi?

hapi is a simple to use configuration-centric framework with built-in support for input validation, caching, authentication, and other essential facilities for building web applications and services.

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.

Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

Jobs that mention hapi and Sails.js as a desired skillset

Rates Payment Administrator

CBRE

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland England Birmingham

View Job Details

Data Center Business Development Manager (U.S. Location: Northeast)

CBRE

United States of America Massachusetts South Boston

View Job Details

2nd Line Support Engineer / Desktop Support

CBRE

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland England London

View Job Details

Senior Finance Processes Architect - REMOTE

CBRE

Czechia Jihomoravsky kraj Brno

View Job Details

See jobs for hapi

See jobs for Sails.js

What companies use hapi?

What companies use Sails.js?

See which teams inside your own company are using hapi or Sails.js.

Sign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions

What tools integrate with hapi?

What tools integrate with Sails.js?

Sign up to get full access to all the tool integrationsMake informed product decisions

What are some alternatives to hapi and Sails.js?

Koa

Koa aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs. Through leveraging generators Koa allows you to ditch callbacks and greatly increase error-handling. Koa does not bundle any middleware.

NestJS

Nest is a framework for building efficient, scalable Node.js server-side applications. It uses progressive JavaScript, is built with TypeScript (preserves compatibility with pure JavaScript) and combines elements of OOP (Object Oriented Programming), FP (Functional Programming), and FRP (Functional Reactive Programming). Under the hood, Nest makes use of Express, but also, provides compatibility with a wide range of other libraries, like e.g. Fastify, allowing for easy use of the myriad third-party plugins which are available.

Restify

A Node.js web service framework optimized for building semantically correct RESTful web services ready for production use at scale. it optimizes for introspection and performance.

Fastify

Fastify is a web framework highly focused on speed and low overhead. It is inspired from Hapi and Express and as far as we know, it is one of the fastest web frameworks in town. Use Fastify can increase your throughput up to 100%.

LoopBack

A highly-extensible, open-source Node.js framework that enables you to create dynamic end-to-end REST APIs with little or no coding. Connect to multiple data sources, write business logic in Node.js, glue on top of your existing services and data, connect using JS, iOS & Android SDKs.

See all alternatives

hapi vs Sails.js

Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

Pros of hapi

Pros of Sails.js

Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions

Cons of hapi

Cons of Sails.js

Sign up to add or upvote consMake informed product decisions

What is hapi?

What is Sails.js?

Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

What companies use hapi?

What companies use Sails.js?

Sign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions

What tools integrate with hapi?

What tools integrate with Sails.js?

Sign up to get full access to all the tool integrationsMake informed product decisions

Related Comparisons

Trending Comparisons

Top Comparisons