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rest-hapi vs Retrofit: What are the differences?

rest-hapi: A RESTful API generator. A hapi plugin intended to abstract the work involved in setting up an API for the purpose of rapid app development. At the same time it provides a powerful combination of relational structure with NoSQL flexibility. You define your models and the rest is done for you; Retrofit: A type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java. Retrofit turns your HTTP API into a Java interface.

rest-hapi and Retrofit can be categorized as "API" tools.

Some of the features offered by rest-hapi are:

  • Automatic generation of CRUD endpoints with middleware support
  • Automatic generation of association endpoints
  • joi validation

On the other hand, Retrofit provides the following key features:

  • URL parameter replacement and query parameter support
  • Object conversion to request body (e.g., JSON, protocol buffers)
  • Multipart request body and file upload

rest-hapi and Retrofit are both open source tools. Retrofit with 33K GitHub stars and 6.13K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than rest-hapi with 897 GitHub stars and 111 GitHub forks.

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What is rest-hapi?

rest-hapi is a hapi plugin that generates RESTful API endpoints based on mongoose schemas. It provides a powerful combination of relational structure with NoSQL flexibility. You define your data models and the rest is done for you.

What is Retrofit?

Retrofit turns your HTTP API into a Java interface

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