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Rails API vs Trails: What are the differences?

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.

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.

Rails API and Trails belong to "Microframeworks (Backend)" category of the tech stack.

"Great for quick decoupled apps" is the primary reason why developers consider Rails API over the competitors, whereas "Easy setup and usage" was stated as the key factor in picking Trails.

Rails API and Trails are both open source tools. It seems that Rails API with 5.26K GitHub stars and 293 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Trails with 1.72K GitHub stars and 75 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Rails API
Pros of Trails
  • 5
    Great for quick decoupled apps
  • 5
    Lightweight
  • 3
    Simply the best
  • 2
    Soon to be merged into core Rails 5
  • 1
    Logging by default
  • 8
    Easy setup and usage
  • 7
    ES2015
  • 6
    Extensible
  • 6
    Modular
  • 6
    Open-source
  • 5
    Fast
  • 5
    Lightweight
  • 4
    Scalable
  • 2
    All that you need, without what you don’t
  • 1
    ES6/ES7

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What is Rails API?

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.

What is Trails?

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.

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What are some alternatives to Rails API and Trails?
Grape
Grape is a REST-like API micro-framework for Ruby. It's designed to run on Rack or complement existing web application frameworks such as Rails and Sinatra by providing a simple DSL to easily develop RESTful APIs. It has built-in support for common conventions, including multiple formats, subdomain/prefix restriction, content negotiation, versioning and much more.
Django
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
Flask
Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.
Sinatra
Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.
Rails
Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
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