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Leptus vs Moleculer: What are the differences?
What is Leptus? Erlang REST framework that runs on top of Cowboy. Leptus simplifies creating RESTful APIs in Erlang.
What is Moleculer? Fast & powerful microservices framework for NodeJS. It is a fault tolerant framework. It has built-in load balancer, circuit breaker, retries, timeout and bulkhead features. It is open source and free of charge project.
Leptus and Moleculer can be categorized as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.
Some of the features offered by Leptus are:
- Supports GET, PUT, POST and DELETE HTTP methods
- Can respond in plain text or JSON
- Supports basic authentication
On the other hand, Moleculer provides the following key features:
- Blazing fast
- Extensible
- Open source
Leptus and Moleculer are both open source tools. Moleculer with 2.85K GitHub stars and 252 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Leptus with 338 GitHub stars and 54 GitHub forks.
Pros of Leptus
Pros of Moleculer
- Many integrations out of the box (db,messaging,tracing)3
- Typescript3
- Complete microservices ecosystem without lerning curve3
- Node.js2
- High performance2
- Excellent documentation1