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JAWS vs Trailblazer: What are the differences?
What is JAWS? Javascript + AWS Stack – A server-free, webapp boilerplate using bleeding-edge AWS services. The Javascript + AWS Stack – A server-free, webapp boilerplate using bleeding-edge AWS services that redefine how to build massively scalable web applications.
What is Trailblazer? A new architecture for Rails. Trailblazer is a thin layer on top of Rails. It gently enforces encapsulation, an intuitive code structure and gives you an object-oriented architecture. In a nutshell: Trailblazer makes you write logicless models that purely act as data objects, don't contain callbacks, nested attributes, validations or domain logic. It removes bulky controllers and strong_parameters by supplying additional layers to hold that code and completely replaces helpers.
JAWS and Trailblazer can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
JAWS and Trailblazer are both open source tools. JAWS with 30.9K GitHub stars and 3.43K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Trailblazer with 2.91K GitHub stars and 129 GitHub forks.
Pros of JAWS
- Heroku2
Pros of Trailblazer
- Trailblazer allows creating sane, large apps in Rails5
- Separates business logic from framework3
- Sound Software Architecture principals2
- Improves maintainability2
- Makes Rails better1
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Cons of JAWS
Cons of Trailblazer
- Hasn't been on Thoughtworks radar since 20141
