🆚 Sails vs. Sapper

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
New York, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source

Categories

Backend Frameworks › Rank #36
Backend Frameworks › Rank #40
Legacy › Rank #87

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Sails backend framework is 1.9 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 India, while Sapper is more popular in the United States, the Netherlands, and Germany.
Japan
United States
Netherlands
France
Germany
Russia
United Kingdom
Cyprus
Singapore
India

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 online shopping, while Sapper is more commonly used on education and reference, real estate, and general news sites.
Business
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Real Estate
Online Shopping
Health
Travel
Software/Hardware
General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#33,345
#33,913
#119,879
#120,893
#121,429
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Name
Rank
#49,629
#178,717
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See also

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