Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
Rails API vs Moleculer: What are the differences?
What is Rails API? Rails for API only applications. 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.
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.
Rails API and Moleculer can be categorized as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.
Rails API and Moleculer are both open source tools. Rails API with 5.26K GitHub stars and 294 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Moleculer with 2.85K GitHub stars and 252 GitHub forks.
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
Pros of Rails API
- Great for quick decoupled apps5
- Lightweight5
- Simply the best3
- Soon to be merged into core Rails 52
- Logging by default1
Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions
What is Moleculer?
What is Rails API?
Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
What companies use Moleculer?
What companies use Rails API?
Sign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions
Sign up to get full access to all the tool integrationsMake informed product decisions
Blog Posts
+24