Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
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.
Pros of Rails API
- Great for quick decoupled apps5
- Lightweight5
- Simply the best3
- Soon to be merged into core Rails 52
- Logging by default1
Pros of Trails
- Easy setup and usage8
- ES20157
- Extensible6
- Modular6
- Open-source6
- Fast5
- Lightweight5
- Scalable4
- All that you need, without what you don’t2
- ES6/ES71