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React Native Material Design vs Sails.js: What are the differences?

React Native Material Design: React Native UI Components for Material Design. An open source project which aims to bring Material Design to Android through React Native by Facebook. The library is made up of many components, which can be found in the sidebar; Sails.js: Realtime MVC Framework for Node.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.

React Native Material Design can be classified as a tool in the "Mobile UI Frameworks" category, while Sails.js is grouped under "Microframeworks (Backend)".

"Unmaintained" is the top reason why over 2 developers like React Native Material Design, while over 41 developers mention "Data-driven apis " as the leading cause for choosing Sails.js.

React Native Material Design and Sails.js are both open source tools. Sails.js with 20.7K GitHub stars and 1.85K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than React Native Material Design with 3.12K GitHub stars and 399 GitHub forks.

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Pros of React Native Material Design
Pros of Sails.js
  • 4
    Unmaintained
  • 1
    Android-only
  • 49
    Data-driven apis
  • 47
    Waterline ORM
  • 37
    Mvc
  • 32
    Easy rest
  • 25
    Real-time
  • 21
    Open source
  • 19
    Service-oriented architecture
  • 18
    Scalable
  • 10
    Convension over configuration
  • 9
    Rails-like asset pipeline
  • 9
    Node machines and machinepacks
  • 7
    Easy route/controller generation
  • 6
    Ruby on Rails basic stuff for JS devs
  • 3
    CLI for scaffolding project pieces
  • 3
    WebSocket support
  • 1
    Supportive community

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    • 5
      Waterline ORM
    • 4
      Defaults to VueJS
    • 0
      Standard MVC

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    What is React Native Material Design?

    An open source project which aims to bring Material Design to Android through React Native by Facebook. The library is made up of many components, which can be found in the sidebar.

    What is 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.

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    What are some alternatives to React Native Material Design and Sails.js?
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    SwiftUI
    Provides views, controls, and layout structures for declaring your app's user interface. The framework provides event handlers for delivering taps, gestures, and other types of input to your app.
    Replit
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