🆚 Sails vs. Sapper

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Backend framework
Backend framework

About

Sails is an enterprise-grade MVC framework for Node.js designed to build data-driven APIs and realtime web applications.

It includes the Waterline ORM for working with multiple databases, auto-generated REST endpoints via blueprints, front-end agnosticism, WebSocket support out of the box, and reusable security policies.

Sapper is an open-source Svelte framework for server-rendered and client-hydrated web applications that has been deprecated in favor of its successor, SvelteKit.

It supports file-based routing with server routes and pages, both Rollup and Webpack templates, legacy browser builds, and TypeScript.

Headquarters

Austin, Texas, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Backend Frameworks › Rank #37
Backend Frameworks › Rank #39
Legacy › Rank #83

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Sails backend framework is 1.5 times more popular than Sapper.
Total websites

Market share

Backend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Sails is more popular in Japan, France, and the United Kingdom, while Sapper is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Romania.
Japan
United States
France
Germany
Romania
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Cyprus
Sweden
Russia

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Sails is more popular among sites focused on business, Internet services, and travel, while Sapper is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, education and reference, and health sites.
Business
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Health
Real Estate
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Finance/Banking

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#33,345
#33,913
#119,879
#120,893
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Name
Rank
#32,007
#49,629
#56,344
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See also

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