faker
Faker is a Crystal library that generates fake data for you (by askn)
kemal
Fast, Effective, Simple Web Framework (by kemalcr)
| faker | kemal | |
|---|---|---|
| - | 15 | |
| 153 | 3,688 | |
| 0.0% | 0.5% | |
| 3.2 | 7.7 | |
| about 1 year ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Crystal | Crystal | |
| 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.
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.
faker
Posts with mentions or reviews of faker.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning faker yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
kemal
Posts with mentions or reviews of kemal.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-23.
- Building My First Web App with the Help of AI
- The New Wave of Programming Languages: Pony, Zig, Crystal, Vlang, & Julia
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Companies Using Kemal in Production
Add your company to the list https://github.com/kemalcr/kemal/wiki/Companies-using-Kemal-in-Production
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Phoenix on Rails - a Phoenix tutorial for Rails developers
https://luckyframework.org/ . Kemal is even faster but it's mostly for APIs. In my opinion it's on par with Actix with much, much better developer experience.
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How do you find the market in 2023?
It's been around for a while under development. It had it's 1.0.0 release in March 2021. There's been two (online) Crystal conferences, and there's two Crystal books published. There's a decent ecosystem of "shards" and there are a couple of Crystal web frameworks and ORMS that are similar to Sinatra or Rails-like. If you already know Ruby, learning Crystal is super easy.
- Kemal: Fast, Effective, Simple Web Framework for Crystal
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Marten, a Crystal web framework that makes building web apps productive and fun
They’re all good to try IMO, another is https://kemalcr.com which is akin to Sinatra if you just want to get an HTTP server with routes setup quickly.
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Medusa: The open-source alternative to Shopify
Kemal (like Sinatra, I really like this one): https://kemalcr.com/
- Ask HN: Simplest stack to build web apps in 2021?
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Packing Static Files Into Crystal Binaries
As an example, consider this small Kemal application:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing faker and kemal you can also consider the following projects:
prime - A Crystal implementation of a prime number generator
amber - A Crystal web framework that makes building applications fast, simple, and enjoyable. Get started with quick prototyping, less bugs, and blazing fast performance.