Rails API vs TypeORM

Overview

Rails API

Stacks95

Followers142

Votes16

GitHub Stars5.1K

Forks275

TypeORM

Stacks756

Followers813

Votes81

GitHub Stars36.0K

Forks6.5K

Rails API vs TypeORM: What are the differences?

Developers describe Rails API as "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. On the other hand, TypeORM is detailed as "An ORM that can run in NodeJS and others". It supports both Active Record and Data Mapper patterns, unlike all other JavaScript ORMs currently in existence, which means you can write high quality, loosely coupled, scalable, maintainable applications the most productive way.

Rails API and TypeORM can be primarily classified as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.

Rails API and TypeORM are both open source tools. It seems that TypeORM with 14.4K GitHub stars and 1.85K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Rails API with 5.26K GitHub stars and 292 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Rails API has a broader approval, being mentioned in 6 company stacks & 41 developers stacks; compared to TypeORM, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 22 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Rails API	TypeORM
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.	It supports both Active Record and Data Mapper patterns, unlike all other JavaScript ORMs currently in existence, which means you can write high quality, loosely coupled, scalable, maintainable applications the most productive way.
-	automatically create the database table schemes based on your models; transparently insert / update / delete to the database your objects; map your selections from tables to JavaScript objects and map table columns to object properties; easily create one-to-one, many-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many relations between tables; and much more.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 5.1K	GitHub Stars 36.0K
GitHub Forks 275	GitHub Forks 6.5K
Stacks 95	Stacks 756
Followers 142	Followers 813
Votes 16	Votes 81
Pros & Cons
Pros 5 Lightweight 5 Great for quick decoupled apps 3 Simply the best 2 Soon to be merged into core Rails 5 1 Logging by default	Pros 30 Typescript 12 Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Ser 9 Cons of TypeORM 9 Easy setup 7 Works in NodeJS, Browser, Ionic, Cordova and Electron p Cons 5 Completely abandoned by its creator 3 Too complex for what it does 2 Doesn't really support native javascript 1 Cannot use query on any relation 1 Not proper/real type safety
Integrations
Ruby	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Rails API, TypeORM?

ExpressJS

Express is a minimal and flexible node.js web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.

Django REST framework

It is a powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.

Sails.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.

Sinatra

Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.

Lumen

Laravel Lumen is a stunningly fast PHP micro-framework for building web applications with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Lumen attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as routing, database abstraction, queueing, and caching.

Slim

Slim is easy to use for both beginners and professionals. Slim favors cleanliness over terseness and common cases over edge cases. Its interface is simple, intuitive, and extensively documented — both online and in the code itself.

Fastify

Fastify is a web framework highly focused on speed and low overhead. It is inspired from Hapi and Express and as far as we know, it is one of the fastest web frameworks in town. Use Fastify can increase your throughput up to 100%.

Falcon

Falcon is a minimalist WSGI library for building speedy web APIs and app backends. We like to think of Falcon as the Dieter Rams of web frameworks.

hapi

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.

FeathersJS

Feathers is a real-time, micro-service web framework for NodeJS that gives you control over your data via RESTful resources, sockets and flexible plug-ins.