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Trails vs Moleculer: What are the differences?
What is Trails? Modern Web Application Framework for Node.js. Trails is a modern, community-driven web application framework for node.js. It builds on the pedigree of Rails and Grails to accelerate development by adhering to a straightforward, convention-based, API-driven design philosophy.
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.
Trails and Moleculer belong to "Microframeworks (Backend)" category of the tech stack.
Trails and Moleculer are both open source tools. It seems that Moleculer with 2.85K GitHub stars and 252 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Trails with 1.71K GitHub stars and 76 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 Trails
- Easy setup and usage8
- ES20157
- Extensible6
- Modular6
- Open-source6
- Fast5
- Lightweight5
- Scalable4
- All that you need, without what you don’t2
- ES6/ES71