Argus VS guardrail

Compare Argus vs guardrail and see what are their differences.

Argus

Builds models from JSON Schemas (by aishfenton)

guardrail

Principled code generation from OpenAPI specifications (by guardrail-dev)
Our great sponsors
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
Argus guardrail
1 2
105 510
- 0.8%
10.0 9.4
over 3 years ago 8 days ago
Scala Scala
MIT License MIT License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Argus

Posts with mentions or reviews of Argus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-16.

guardrail

Posts with mentions or reviews of guardrail. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-27.
  • Ask HN: Why is there no specification for Command Line Interfaces?
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2023
    What's the use case? I was thinking about this exact issue because my product ships several CLI tools, but I wasn't convinced it would be worth the effort.

    An OpenAPI specification describes an HTTP interface, and I see it as useful because it makes it easier to write code in language-of-choice to generate HTTP requests (by generating client libraries from the OpenAPI spec).

    For a CLI, the interface is the command-line. Usually people type these commands, or they end up in bash scripts, or sometimes they get called from programming language of choice by shelling out to the CLI. So I could see a use case for a CLI spec, which would make it easier to generate client libraries (which would shell out to the CLI)... but it seems a little niche.

    Or maybe, as input to a documentation tool (like Swagger docs). I would imagine if you're using a CLI library like Python's Click, most of that data is already there. Click Parameters documentation: https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/8.1.x/parameters/

    Or maybe, you could start from the spec and then generate code which enforces it. So any changes pass through the spec, which would make it easy to write code (server and client-side) / documentation / changelogs. Some projects like this: Guardrail (Scala) https://github.com/guardrail-dev/guardrail , and Connexion (Python) https://github.com/spec-first/connexion .

    But without this ecosystem of tooling, documenting your CLI in a specification didn't really seem worth the effort. Of course, that's a bootstrapping problem.

  • Scala Library To Generate Case Classes for JSON
    8 projects | /r/scala | 16 Aug 2022
    You may have some luck with Guardrail https://github.com/guardrail-dev/guardrail/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Argus and guardrail you can also consider the following projects:

natchez-akka-http - A tiny integration library between Natchez and Akka Http

typespec

scala-jsonschema - Scala JSON Schema

rad4s - A set of utilities to speed up rendering, storage, testing, and prototyping, especially for http4s

circe - Yet another JSON library for Scala

connexion - Connexion is a modern Python web framework that makes spec-first and api-first development easy.

karma-plus-plus - http://karmaplusplus.com

iron-cats-example - An example project using Iron & Cats

circe-argus - Temporary fork of Argus, for generating Scala models from JSON Schemas

schema - JSON schema for Vega and Vega-Lite

smithy-translate

scala.meta - Library to read, analyze, transform and generate Scala programs