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hapi vs Rails API: What are the differences?
What is 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.
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.
hapi and Rails API can be primarily classified as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.
"Makes me Hapi making REST APIs" is the primary reason why developers consider hapi over the competitors, whereas "Great for quick decoupled apps" was stated as the key factor in picking Rails API.
hapi and Rails API are both open source tools. It seems that hapi with 11.3K GitHub stars and 1.16K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Rails API with 5.26K GitHub stars and 293 GitHub forks.
Pros of hapi
- Makes me Hapi making REST APIs27
- Simpler than other REST libraries14
- Configuration14
- Quality Driven Ecosystem13
- Modularization13
- Easy testability5
- Better validation1
- Restify0
Pros of Rails API
- Great for quick decoupled apps5
- Lightweight5
- Simply the best3
- Soon to be merged into core Rails 52
- Logging by default1