Simple Navigation vs Sinatra

Simple Navigation

A ruby gem for creating navigations (with multiple levels) for your Rails, Sinatra or Padrino applications. Render your navigation as html list, link list or breadcrumbs. (by codeplant)

Source Code

simple-navigation-demo.codeplant.ch

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Sinatra

Classy web-development dressed in a DSL (official / canonical repo) (by sinatra)

Web Frameworks Ruby Rack web-framework Sinatra

Source Code

sinatrarb.com

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Simple Navigation		Sinatra
	Project
0	Mentions	10
884	Stars	12,088
0.0%	Growth	0.1%
0.0	Activity	8.4
9 months ago	Latest Commit	20 days ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Simple Navigation

Posts with mentions or reviews of Simple Navigation. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Simple Navigation yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Sinatra

Posts with mentions or reviews of Sinatra. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-07.

How to Use Sinatra to Build a Ruby Application
8 projects | dev.to | 7 Jun 2023

Compared to Ruby on Rails, a full-stack web framework, Sinatra is a very lean micro-framework originally developed by Blake Mizerany to help Ruby developers build applications with "minimal effort".
Ruby on Rails VS Hanami - a user suggested alternative
3 projects | 11 Aug 2021

Sinatra is the oldest competitor of Rails. Although it's not that popular anymore, it's still used in some simple and performance focused services.
Does Anyone use Sinatra in Production?
3 projects | /r/ruby | 21 Apr 2021

Sinatra is fine as long as you have a small number of routes, because its router is O(n): https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/blob/ac5404dbd897a4b3c5b3921d2f89fecd3b540ed3/lib/sinatra/base.rb#L1008-L1010
Hacktoberfest: 69 Beginner-Friendly Projects You Can Contribute To
67 projects | dev.to | 29 Sep 2020

https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra A classy web-development dressed in a DSL (official / canonical repo)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Simple Navigation and Sinatra you can also consider the following projects:

Hanami - The web, with simplicity.

Roda - Routing Tree Web Toolkit

Ruby on Rails - Ruby on Rails

Padrino - Padrino is a full-stack ruby framework built upon Sinatra.

Cuba - Rum based microframework for web development.

Camping - the 5k pocket full-of-gags web microframework

rack-app - minimalist framework for building rack applications

react-on-rails - Integration of React + Webpack + Rails + rails/webpacker including server-side rendering of React, enabling a better developer experience and faster client performance.

Breadcrumbs on Rails - A simple Ruby on Rails plugin for creating and managing a breadcrumb navigation.

Pakyow - Design-First Web Framework

Volt - A Ruby web framework where your Ruby runs on both server and client

Ramaze - Ramaze is a simple, light and modular open-source web application framework written in Ruby.