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Jersey vs Sails.js: What are the differences?
Developers describe Jersey as "A REST framework that provides a JAX-RS implementation *". It is open source, production quality, framework for developing RESTful Web Services in Java that provides support for JAX-RS APIs and serves as a JAX-RS (JSR 311 & JSR 339) Reference Implementation. It provides it’s own API that extend the JAX-RS toolkit with additional features and utilities to further simplify RESTful service and client development. On the other hand, *Sails.js** is detailed as "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.
Jersey and Sails.js belong to "Microframeworks (Backend)" category of the tech stack.
Sails.js is an open source tool with 20.7K GitHub stars and 1.85K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Sails.js's open source repository on GitHub.
Redox Engine, HYPH, and LapNghiep are some of the popular companies that use Sails.js, whereas Jersey is used by Bodybuilding.com, Unruly, and Nekso. Sails.js has a broader approval, being mentioned in 47 company stacks & 150 developers stacks; compared to Jersey, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.
Pros of Jersey
- Lightweight3
- Fast Performance With Microservices1
- Java standard1
Pros of Sails.js
- Data-driven apis49
- Waterline ORM47
- Mvc37
- Easy rest32
- Real-time25
- Open source21
- Service-oriented architecture19
- Scalable18
- Convension over configuration10
- Rails-like asset pipeline9
- Node machines and machinepacks9
- Easy route/controller generation7
- Ruby on Rails basic stuff for JS devs6
- CLI for scaffolding project pieces3
- WebSocket support3
- Supportive community1
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Cons of Jersey
Cons of Sails.js
- Waterline ORM5
- Defaults to VueJS4
- Standard MVC0