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Apollo vs PythonAnywhere: What are the differences?
What is Apollo? GraphQL server for Express, Connect, Hapi, Koa and more. Build a universal GraphQL API on top of your existing REST APIs, so you can ship new application features fast without waiting on backend changes.
What is PythonAnywhere? Micro PaaS for Python web apps. Develop and host Python from your browser. It's somewhat unique. A small PaaS that supports web apps (Python only) as well as scheduled jobs with shell access. It is an expensive way to tinker and run several small apps.
Apollo and PythonAnywhere can be categorized as "Platform as a Service" tools.
"From the creators of Meteor" is the primary reason why developers consider Apollo over the competitors, whereas "Web apps" was stated as the key factor in picking PythonAnywhere.
Apollo is an open source tool with 7.53K GitHub stars and 935 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Apollo's open source repository on GitHub.
We wanted to save as much time as possible when writing our back-end, therefore Apollo was out of the question, we went for an auto-generated API instead. Hasura looked good in the beginning, but we wanted to retain the ability to add a few manual resolvers and modifications to auto-generated ones, which ruled out Hasura. Postgraphile with its Plug-In architecture was the right choice for us, we never regretted it!
Pros of Apollo
- From the creators of Meteor12
- Great documentation8
- Open source3
- Real time if use subscription2
Pros of PythonAnywhere
- Web apps15
- Easy Setup11
- Great support8
- Shell access8
- Free plan8
- Super-easy to use7
- Libraries5
- Many things like Python are pre-installed2
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Cons of Apollo
- File upload is not supported1
- Increase in complexity of implementing (subscription)1
Cons of PythonAnywhere
- No root access1
- Really small community1
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